Comprehensive Income
Issues about income reporting have been characterized broadly in terms of a contrast between the current operating performance and the all-inclusive income concepts. Although the FASB generally has followed the all-inclusive income concept, as introduced in Chapter 5, it has made some specific exceptions to that concept. Several accounting standards require that certain items that qualify as components of comprehensive income bypass the income statement. Other components are required to be disclosed in the notes. The rationale for this treatment is that the earnings process is incomplete. Examples of items currently not disclosed on the traditional income statement and reported elsewhere are as follows: