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One of the tricks that companies might choose to improve their annual financial results is to switch inventory accounting methods: FIFO to LIFO or LIFO to Average. They might also employ a different method of depreciating assets: Straight Line to Double Declining Balance, and similar. How is the investor protected from these types of manipulations?