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Which of the Following Events Would Be Considered an Extraordinary

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Which of the following events would be considered an extraordinary item?


A) An airline experienced a significant loss due to a strike by employees of the company who provide its aircraft maintenance.
B) A food cannery was faced with a large loss of inventory of canned soups due to government condemnation because of possible botulism contamination;the company had never experienced a similar situation in its history.
C) A company,located on an island which has experienced severe flooding three times in the past 25 years,was subjected to a heavy loss of physical plant due to flooding.
D) A medical corporation was required to pay damages equal to three times its average net income to a patient.The corporation had experienced suits of this nature in the past,but the amount of the losses had never exceeded 5 percent of the corporation's average net income.

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