Chapter 18, Problem 18.4BYP

Research Case 18–4

FASB codification; comprehensive income; locate and extract relevant information and authoritative support for a financial reporting issue; integrative; Cisco Systems

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Real World Financials

Required:

1. Locate the financial statements of Cisco at www.sec.gov or Cisco’s website. Search the 2015 annual report for information about how Cisco accounts for comprehensive income. What does Cisco report in its balance sheet regarding comprehensive income?

2. Access the FASB Accounting Standards Codification at the FASB website (www.fasb.org). Identify the specific citation from the authoritative literature that describes the two alternative formats for reporting comprehensive income.

3. What is comprehensive income? How does it differ from net income? Where is it reported in a balance sheet?

4. One component of Other comprehensive income for Cisco is “net unrealized gains on investments.” What does this mean? From the information Cisco’s financial statements provide, determine how the company calculated the $61 million accumulated other comprehensive income at the end of fiscal 2015.

5. What might be possible causes for the “Other” component of Cisco’s Other comprehensive income? Alcoa is the world’s leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. The following is a press release from the company: