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April 06, 2020 12:00 AM

No good reason not to report monthly

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    TO THE EDITOR:

    I agree with Dave Versical completely ("Now's the time to bring back monthly reports," March 23). The factories that want to hide their monthly sales results are only doing this with bad motives. They owe it to their stockholders, dealers, the Fed to report monthly. I have yet to hear a valid argument why it is a good idea to only report quarterly.

    CARL WOODWARD, Owner, Woodward & Associates Inc., Bloomington, Ill. Woodward & Associates is an automotive certified public accounting firm with over 250 new-vehicle dealer clients.

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