Southeast Airlines had pretax earnings of $65 million. Included in this amount is income from discontinued operations

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Southeast Airlines had pretax earnings of $65 million. Included in this amount is income from discontinued operations of $10 million. The company’s tax rate is 25%. What is the amount of income tax expense that Southeast would report in its income statement for continuing operations? How should the gain on disposal of a discontinued operation be reported?

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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 978-1260481952

10th edition

Authors: J. David Spiceland, James Sepe, Mark Nelson, Wayne Thomas

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