Comprehensive Income Willie Nelsen. Jr, controller for Jenkins Corporation, is preparing the companys financial statements at year-end.

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Comprehensive Income Willie Nelsen. Jr, controller for Jenkins Corporation, is preparing the company’s financial statements at year-end. Currently, he is focusing on the income statement and determining the format for reporting comprehensive income. During the year, the company earned net income of $400,000 and had unrealized gains on non-trading equity securities of $15.000. In the previous year, net income was $410,000, and the company had no unrealized gains or losses.
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(a) Show how income and comprehensive income will be reported on a comparative basis for the current and prior years, using the separate income statement format.
(b) Show how income and comprehensive income will be reported on a comparative basis for the current and prior years, using the combined comprehensive income statement format.
(c) Which format should Nelson recommend?

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Financial statements are the standardized formats to present the financial information related to a business or an organization for its users. Financial statements contain the historical information as well as current period’s financial...
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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 978-0470873991

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Authors: kieso, weygandt and warfield.

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