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Quiz Solutions testbank to accompany contemporary issues in accounting michaela rankin, patricia stanton, susan mcgowan, matthew tilling, kimberly ferlauto Relevance and faithful representation remain as the two fundamental qualitative characteristics. financial accounting information? Relevance refers to the property of information being capable of making a difference in decisions made by users of that information.
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