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Author: Ray Whittington, Kurt Pany
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 13, Problem 6RQ
Moultrie Company discovered recently that a number of its property and equipment assets had been retired from use several years ago without any entries being made in the accounting records. The company asks you to suggest procedures that will prevent unrecorded retirement of assets.
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