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You are auditing Green Corporation for the calendar year 2017.Among other items related to the audit,Green Corporation was being sued for personal injury resulting from the malfunction of one of their products.The lawsuit was initiated by Sue Ewe in September,2017.Management and the company's outside legal counsel estimated the loss from the suit to be approximately $250,000.This amount is accrued and properly disclosed in the footnotes of the financial statements.You have no reason to believe that the estimate is inaccurate.You completed your audit and dated your report March 2,2018.The financial statements were issued on March 14,2018.On March 20,2018,you read in a national business periodical that the jury in the trial awarded Sue Ewe $1.5 million.
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Discuss the nature of these events and what responsibility,if any,you have regarding the news of March 20,2018.
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