The following events occurred during 2021 for various audit clients of your firm. Consider each event to be independent and the effect of each event to be material. 

1. A manufacturing company recognized a loss on the sale of investments. 

2. An automobile manufacturer sold all of the assets related to its financing component. The operations of the financing business is considered a component of the entity. 

3. A company changed its depreciation method from the double-declining-balance method to the straight-line method. 

4. Due to obsolescence, a company engaged in the manufacture of high-technology products incurred a loss on inventory write-down. 

5. One of your clients discovered that 2020’s depreciation expense was overstated. The error occurred because of a miscalculation of depreciation for the office building. 

6. A cosmetics company decided to discontinue the manufacture of a line of women’s lipstick. Other cosmetic lines will be continued. A loss was incurred on the sale of assets related to the lipstick product line. The operations of the discontinued line is not considered a component of the entity. 

Required: 

Determine whether each of the above events would be reported as income from continuing operations, income from discontinued operations, or not reported in the current year’s income statement.