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Page 37
Whenever the firm reports net income, it means that more assets have come in as
revenues than went out as expenses; more precisely, it means that the net asset
total (assets minus liabilities) has increased. Therefore, if the accounting ...
Whenever the firm reports net income, it means that more assets have come in as
revenues than went out as expenses; more precisely, it means that the net asset
total (assets minus liabilities) has increased. Therefore, if the accounting ...
Page 786
He introduced a distribution of masses by means of a nondecreasing function g. It
assigns to every interval [a, b] the increment 8if>) — g(a) of the function g; if g(x) =
x then the increment reduces to the length b — a of the interval. Thus, in ...
He introduced a distribution of masses by means of a nondecreasing function g. It
assigns to every interval [a, b] the increment 8if>) — g(a) of the function g; if g(x) =
x then the increment reduces to the length b — a of the interval. Thus, in ...
Page 809
He declared that "property is theft," but this did not mean that he advocated
communism. He attacked the use of property as a means of exploiting the labour
of others, but he regarded "possession" — the right of a worker or group of
workers to ...
He declared that "property is theft," but this did not mean that he advocated
communism. He attacked the use of property as a means of exploiting the labour
of others, but he regarded "possession" — the right of a worker or group of
workers to ...
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| Title | The New Encyclopædia Britannica Part 2, Volume 1 of The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, ISBN 085229400X, 9780852294000 |
| Edition | 15 |
| Publisher | Encyclopædia Britannica, 1983 |
| ISBN | 085229400X, 9780852294000 |
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