Principles of Accounting
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ISBN: 9781133626985
Author: Belverd E. Needles, Marian Powers, Susan V. Crosson
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 16, Problem 4EA
Express Rivera Company’s partial comparative income statements as common-size statements, and comment on the changes from 2013 to 2014.
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