acquisition accounting

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an accounting procedure in which the assets of a company that has recently been taken over are changed from the book value to the fair market value

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Words nearby acquisition accounting

acquired taste, acquiree, acquirement, acquis communautaire, acquisition, acquisition accounting, acquisitive, acquit, acquittal, acquittance, acquitted

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How to use acquisition accounting in a sentence

The user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.
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“EOTS is a poster child for one of the ills of the acquisition process,” the official said.
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He had studied accounting in college, but he had become a cop for the same reason as Ramos.
In The Shadow of Murdered Cops|Michael Daly|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hopefully there will be a transparent accounting of what was introduced.
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The answers include poor planning, budgetary procedures that defied economic logic, and at least one bone-headed accounting error.
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In brief, Chumru abused the English with such an air that he was regarded by the rebels as quite an acquisition.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
It is skirted by houses and gardens and is a valuable acquisition to the town.
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John Bones, lawyer, age twenty-six, was a recent acquisition to Coldriver village.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
And his mind at least was happy in its new sense of expansion and acquisition, its increasing and developing powers.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
It is when studies requiring abstruse thought are reached that the facility in acquisition of the savage races comes to an end.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris