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-Name Accounting Research Bulletin (ARB)
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-Paragraph A3
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-Name Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB)
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-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
-Number 210
-Section 02
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-Publisher SEC
-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
-Number 210
-Section 03
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-Article 7
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