You have been asked to review the useful lives of your company's fixed assets and recommend any appropriate changes. Your company uses incentive compensation broadly across management levels and the incentives are tied to current profits. If you recommend shorter useful lives it will have an adverse impact on profits in the short term. How should you approach this assignment?
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