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Accounting has often been called the language of business (Piper, 2013). Through the debits and credits, revenues and expenses, and assets and liabilities found on financial statements, companies com-municate to stakeholders the financial health of the organization and the progress it is making in achieving its financial-oriented goals and objectives (Botan, 2006; Coombs & Holladay, 2010; Hallahan, Holtzhausen, van Ruler, Vercic, & Srirmesh, 2007; Smith, 2012).
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© 2014 Matthew W. Ragas and Ron Culp
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Ragas, M.W., Culp, R. (2014). Accounting and Financial Statements. In: Business Essentials for Strategic Communicators. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385338_4
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