The Restatement approach to third-party negligence suits against accountants:

A. requires that the accountant be unaware of the third parties' reliance on the financial statements.
B. does not protect the typical investor who was unknown to the accountant and his or her client when the financial statements were prepared.
C. does not require that the accountant be aware of the third parties.
D. holds that the accountant is liable only to those third parties who are unreasonably foreseeable.


Answer: B

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