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Which of the following steps in the expenditure cycle would not appear as event entities in an REA diagram?

Accounting Information Systems

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337619202

Author:Hall, James A.

Publisher:Hall, James A.

Chapter10: The Rea Approach To Database Modeling

Section: Chapter Questions

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