Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 8th Edition
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Chapter 13, Problem 1Q
To determine
Sustainable income: Sustainable income is an amount of income that a company is able to obtain in future period.
To explain:
Sustainable income and its relationship with treatment of discontinued operations on the income statement.
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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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