Corporate Financial Accounting
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Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 10, Problem 10.3TIF
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To draft: A Memo to the President of Company WBM, explaining the reporting of effect of uncertain outcome of the lawsuit
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Corporate Financial Accounting
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