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Worthless Debt Securities and Bad Debts: Identifying Identifiable Events
January 9, 2023
In this report, Laura Barzilai examines what constitutes an identifiable event for purposes of proving the worthlessness of securities or debt, and she explores whether a recession or market crash is an identifiable event.
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