Campbell Soup Company reports the following footnote to its \(200810-\mathrm{K}\).

What adjustment(s) might we consider before we forecast Campbell Soup's income for 2009? How would we treat the cash proceeds that Campbell Soup realized on such a sale?

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Discontinued Operations On March 18, 2008, the company completed the sale of its Godiva Chocolatier business for $850 million... The company has reflected the results of this business as discontinued operations in the consolidated statements of earnings for all years presented... The company recognized a pretax gain of $698 million ($462 million after tax or $1.21 per share) on the sale. The company used $600 million of the net proceeds from the sale to purchase company stock.