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Income Statement
- report that measures the success of company operations for a given period of time
1. amount
2. timing
3. uncertainty
Income Statement
- report that measures the success of company operations for a given period of time
1. amount
2. timing
3. uncertainty
1. Companies omit items from the I/S that they cannot measure reliably
Quality of Earnings
can be negatively effected by...
1. earnings management - the planned timing of revenues, expenses, gains, and losses to smooth out
bumps in earnings
1. Operating Section:
a. Sales/Revenue Section
c. Selling Expenses
d. Administrative/General Expenses
2. Non-operating Section:
a. Other Revenues/Gains
b. Other Expenses/Losses
3. Income Tax
4. Discontinued Operations
5. Extraordinary Items
6. Noncontrolling Interest
7. Earnings Per Share
Sales Revenue
Gross Profit
Other income/expense
Income Tax
Net Income
- Company includes only the totals of expense groups in the statement of income
Advantages:
- simple presentation
- absence of any implication that one type of revenue/expense item has priority over another
- companies record most items, including unusual or irregular ones, as part of net income
1. Unusual gains/losses
2. Discontinued Operations
3. Extraordinary Items
4. Non-controlling Interest
Unusual Gains/Losses
1. Losses on write-down or write-off of receivables, inventories, property, plant, and equipment, etc.
3. Restructuring charges
4. Other gains/losses from sale or abandonment of property, plant, or equipment used in the business
5. Effects of a strike
Discontinued Operations
- relates income tax expense of the fiscal period to the specific items that give rise to the amount
- helps users better understand the impact of income taxes on various components of net income
2. Discontinued Operations
3. Extraordinary Items
Extraordinary Items
- Unusual Nature
- Infrequency of Occurrence
- the portion of equity interest in a subsidiary not attributable to the parent company.
- measures the number of dollars earned by each share of common stock (not the dollar amount paid to
stockholders through dividends)
2) discontinued operations
3. extraordinary items
4. Net Income
- must make retrospective adjustment to recast prior year's statements on basis consistent with new
principle
Beginning Balance:
Less: Dividends
Ending Balance:
- companies often restrict earnings for money to use in certain planned operations
Comprehensive Income
- includes all changes in equity during a period EXCEPT from investments/distributions to owners
- include items (other comprehensive income) that bypass the income statement
Comprehensive Income = all revenues, gains, expenses, losses on Net Income and all gains and losses
that bypass Net Income but affect stockholder's equity
Reported:
2. Reconciliation of the carrying amount of each component of stockholder's equity from the beg. to end
of period
- columnar form
- The single-step income statement does not imply that one type of revenue or expense has priority over
another
a. advertising expense
b. office salaries expense (This is not a selling expense because it does not have to do with sales)
c. freight-out
1. material in amount
2. unusual in nature
3. infrequent
- Gain resulting from the state exercising its right of eminent domain on a piece of land used as a parking
lot
- gains from a company selling the only investment it has ever owned
Which of the following is a change in accounting principle?
- A change from FIFO to LIFO and a change from straight-line to double-declining balance
A material item which is unusual in nature or infrequent in occurrence, but not both should be shown in
the income statement
- Disclosed Separately
- It's purpose is to relate the income tax expense to the items which affect the amount of tax
Which of the following items would be reported net of tax on the face of the income statement?
Where must EPS be disclosed in the financial statements to satisfy generally accepted accounting
principles?
- Net of tax
- Material losses resulting from the correction of errors related to prior periods
A company is not required to report a per share amount on the face of the income statement for which
of the following items
a. Net Income
c. Extraordinary item
d. Discontinued Operations
Which disclosure method do most companies use to display the components of other comprehensive
income
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