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          O. Liquidating Corp., 292 F.2d 225 (3d Cir. 1961), revg. T.C.               
          Memo. 1960-29.  In O. Liquidating Corp., the taxpayer corporation           
          received annual dividend payments which were attributable to                
          insurance company surpluses earned in a prior year, but which               
          were declared and distributed after the close of that year.  The            
          taxpayer recorded the dividends in its accounts in the year of              
          the surpluses rather than in the year the dividends were declared           
          and paid.  Both the taxpayer and the Commissioner agreed that--             
          pursuant to the taxpayer’s otherwise applicable accrual method of           
          accounting--these dividends should have been reported in the year           
          of their declaration and payment.  The court found, however, that           
          regardless of the impropriety of this treatment under the                   
          taxpayer’s overall accrual method, the taxpayer was required to             
          obtain consent before correcting the error.                                 
               The opinion in O. Liquidating Corp. is controlling in this             
          case:  Even if BMP was correcting the application of an overall             
          cash method of accounting, it was nevertheless a change in its              
          method of accounting which required the consent of the Secretary            





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          this case would be appealable to the U.S. Court of Appeals for              
          the Third Circuit.  See sec. 7482(b)(1)(A).  This Court generally           
          applies the law in a manner consistent with the holdings of the             
          Court of Appeals to which an appeal of its decision lies, see               
          Golsen v. Commissioner, 54 T.C. 742 (1970), affd. 445 F.2d 985              
          (10th Cir. 1971), even in cases subject to sec. 7463(b).                    





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