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• Matching concept. The expenses related to revenue should be Business Ratios Guidebook
Corporate Cash Management
recognized in the same period in which the revenue was
Corporate Finance
recognized. By doing this, there is no deferral of expense Cost Management
recognition into later reporting periods, so that someone viewing a Enterprise Risk Management
company's financial statements can be assured that all aspects of a Financial Analysis
transaction have been recorded at the same time. Interpretation of Financials
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• Materiality concept. Transactions should be recorded when not MBA Guidebook
doing so might alter the decisions made by a reader of a company's Mergers & Acquisitions
financial statements. This tends to result in relatively small-size Treasurer's Guidebook
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