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This Subtopic provides guidance on encouraged disclosures on the effects of changing prices. For that reason, the guidance that describes how to present the disclosures is included in Section 255-10-50 rather than this Section.
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The degree of inflation or deflation in an economy may become so great that conventional statements lose much of their significance and general price-level statements clearly become more meaningful. Although this is obvious with respect to some countries, the degree of inflation or deflation at which general price level statements clearly become more meaningful depends on the circumstances.
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This guidance applies only to statements prepared in the currency of the country in which the operations reported on are conducted. Only conventional statements of foreign subsidiaries should be used to prepare historical-dollar consolidated statements.
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