Under the equity method, when the company's share of cumulative losses equals its investment and the company has no obligation or intention to fund such additional losses, which of the following statements is true?
A) The investor should change to the fair-value method to account for its investment.
B) The investor should suspend applying the equity method until the investee reports income.
C) The investor should suspend applying the equity method and not record any equity in income of investee until its share of future profits is sufficient to recover losses that have not previously been recorded.
D) The cumulative losses should be reported as a prior period adjustment.
E) The investor should report these as equity method losses in its income statement.
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