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An income statement reports

  • A.revenue and expenses over a period
  • B.assets and liabilities at a date
  • C.cash receipts and payments at a date
  • D.the firm's market capitalisation

Answer: A

Correct answer: revenue and expenses over a period

An income statement covers an interval - a quarter or a year - and reports what was earned and what it cost to earn it. The balance sheet is the other kind of statement, reporting position at a single date. Confusing the two is the commonest error in reading accounts, since a flow and a stock cannot be compared directly.

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