文档介绍：AN INTRODUCTION TO
ACCOUNTING and
MANAGERIAL FINANCE
A Merger of Equals
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AN INTRODUCTION TO
ACCOUNTING and
MANAGERIAL FINANCE
A Merger of Equals
Harold Bierman, Jr.
Cornell University, USA
World Scientific
N E W J E R S E Y • L O N D O N • S I N G A P O R E • B E I J I N G • S H A N G H A I • H O N G K O N G • TA I P E I • C H E N N A I
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Bierman, Harold.
An introduction to accounting and managerial finance : a merger of equals /
by Harold Bierman.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-981-4273-82-4 (hardcover)
ISBN-10: 981-4273-82-1 (hardcover)
1. Corporations--Accounting. 2. Corporations--Finance. I. Title.
2009
657--dc22
2009034159
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Preface
Introductory accounting and finance have traditionally been taught as two separate
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