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A firm has a foreign subsidiary whose functional currency is the local currency. At year-end, the translation of the subsidiary's financial statements into the parent's reporting currency (U.S. dollars) results in a 'plug' figure to balance the accounting equation.
Where is this 'plug' reported in the financial statement set?
- In the Investing activities section of the Statement of Cash Flows as a financing-like outflow
- In Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) as a Cumulative Translation Adjustment (CTA)
- In the Income Statement as a current-period Foreign Exchange Gain or Loss
- Directly within Retained Earnings, treated as a prior period adjustment
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