Intermediate Accounting, 10 Ed
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ISBN: 9781260310177
Author: Mark W. Nelson, Wayne B. Thomas J. David Spiceland
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Lynch Corporation changes from the sum-of-the-years’-digits method of
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