Accounting, Binder Ready Version: Tools for Business Decision Making - Standalone book
Accounting, Binder Ready Version: Tools for Business Decision Making - Standalone book
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781119191674
Author: Paul D. Kimmel, Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 13, Problem 1Q
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Explain the sustainable income and its relationship with treatment of discontinued operations on the income statement.

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Explanation of Solution

Sustainable income: Sustainable income is an amount of income that a company is able to obtain in future period.

Sustainable income is the level of income that a company receives regularly from its normal operations. Company reports net income, sustainable income, and irregular items separately in the income statement to show the variation among the items.

Conclusion

Thus, the relationship among the sustainable income and other items are explained above.

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