The income statement is a change statement. Explain what is meant by this.

Financial statements:
Financial statements are condensed summary of transactions communicated in the form of reports for the purpose of decision making. The financial statements reports, and shows the financial status of the business. The financial statements consist of the balance sheet, income statement, statement of retained earnings, and the cash flow statement.
To explain: The reason for which the income statement is termed as change statement.
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Income statement:
The financial statement which reports revenues and expenses from business operations and the result of those operations as net income or net loss for a particular time period is referred to as income statement. It is also known as statement of operations’ (or) Earnings.
Income statement measures the revenues, expenses, gains and losses of the company during reporting period which causes owners’ equity to change for that reporting period. Thus income statement is change statement.
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