Advanced Financial Accounting
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Maness Company made a change in accounting for its inventories during the third quarter of its fiscal year. The company switched from the LIFO method to the average cost method. Describethe reporting of this accounting change on prior interim financial statements and on third-quarter interim financial statements.
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