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Special Purpose

A financial reporting framework other than GAAP that is one of the following bases of accounting: cash basis, tax basis, regulatory basis, contractual basis, or any other basis of accounting that uses a definite set of logical, reasonable criteria that is applied to all material items appearing in the financial statements.

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