Comprehensive Income Assume that you are the accountant for Ellis Corporation, which has issued its 2008 annual report. You have received an inquiry from a stockholder who has questions about several items in the annual report, including why Ellis has not shown certain transactions on the income statement.

In particular, Ellis’s 2008 balance sheet revealed two accounts in Stockholders’ Equity

(Unrealized Gain/Loss—Available-for-Sale Securities and Loss on Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments) for which the dollar amounts involved were not reported on the income statement.

Required Draft a written response to the stockholder’s inquiry that explains the nature of the two accounts and the reason the amounts involved were not recorded on the 2008 income statement. Do you think that the concept of comprehensive income would be useful to explain the impact of all events for Ellis Corporation? Why or why not?