Loncept Lta. IS a llSIEU puouc company in a VOlattle Industry. lne market price 01' Its shares Is highly sensitive to its earnings. The company's annual meeting is to be held soon and the president is concerned, expecting to be attacked strongly by a dissident group of shareholders. One issue the dissidents are expected to focus on is the company's amortization policy. They will claim that the annual declining balance amortization charges are excessivethat the company's conservative amortization policy seriously understates annual earnings per share, causing the share price to be artificially low. Threats have even been made of suing management and the board of directors to "recover the resulting loss in market value, relative to shareholders in companies with less conservative amortization policies, suffered by Concept's shareholders. " The president has asked you to help prepare a defence against the expected attack on the company's amortization policy