New accounting rules aim to make change for unredeemed gift cards
Everybody has an unspent gift card or two around the house. Maybe you just never got to the store to use it, or maybe there’s only got a few dollars left on it and it would feel like a pain to zero it out. But unspent cards like these are ...
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