Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134728520
Author: Robert Kemp, Jeffrey Waybright
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 2SE
Accounting principles (Learning Objective 4) 5-10 min.
Jack Sanders owns and operates Jack's Java Coffee Shop. He proposes to account for the shop's assets at their current market value in order to have current amounts on the balance sheet. Which accounting concept or principle does Jack violate?
- a. Business entity principle
- b. Going-concern principle
- c. Reliability principle
- d. Cost principle
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