Based on a reliable insider tip, a reporter investigated the testing of a corporation's salon products on animals. During the course of her investigation, the reporter sneaked into the corporate headquarters where the reporter discovered and copied many documents proving the management's efforts to conceal the corporation's animal testing from the public. The reporter's newspaper published several of her stories, resulting in a drastic drop in sales of the corporation's product. The corporation filed a lawsuit against both the reporter for trespass and the newspaper for publishing illegally obtained facts. Can the corporation recover damages in its suit

A. economic resources to be used or turned into cash within one year. b. reports assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity. c. decrease assets; increase liabilities and stockholders' equity. d. increase assets; decrease liabilities and stockholders' equity. e. an exchange or event that has a direct and measurable financial effect. f. accounts for a business separate from its owners. g. the principle that assets should be recorded at their original cost to the company. h. a standardized format used to accumulate data about each item reported on financial statements. i. the basic accounting equation. j. the two equalities in accounting that aid in providing accuracy. k. the account credited when money is borrowed from a bank using a promissory note. l. cumulative earnings of a company that have not yet been distributed to the owners. m. every transaction has at least two effects. n. amounts presently owed by the business. transaction, separate entity assumption, balance sheet, liabilities, assets, current assets, notes payable, duality of effects, retained earnings, debit.