Read paragraphs 95 through 99 in Appendix B: Background information and basis for conclusions in FASB's Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 128.
a. Why did the Board decide to require an antidilution sequence that considers securities in the order of most dilutive to least dilutive?
b. What line items may appear on an income statement after income from continuing operations, but before net income? Note that when Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 128 was written, companies reported extraordinary items and the effect of changes in accounting principles on the income statement after income from continuing operations. This is no longer true.
c. The FASB chose income from continuing operations as the number that should be used to determine whether securities are dilutive or antidilutive. Why did it choose income from continuing operations as opposed to net income?
d. Did the constituents who wrote comment letters to the exposure draft of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 128 agree with the use of income from continuing operations as opposed to net income as the control number for the determination of what securities are dilutive?