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sky blue    864483 Sun, 16 Aug 09 12:05 PM

Q: When a bookstore sells a textbook on credit is its earnings process complete?
Can anyone tell me what this question is asking?
The structure of this sentence looks weird to me; I can't make any sense out of it
especially when I see the way the answer is given.
The answer to that question is:
A: The bookstore can record sales for these books minus an amount expected for returns.
This seems like a weird way to answer a "WHEN" question, without answering "when".
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