The Wall Street Journal
IBM Plans To Expand Earnings Reports To Include More Details About Its Income

International Business Machines Corp., responding to investor demands for greater accounting disclosure, plans to start releasing details of financial income that it previously buried in accounting statements as offsets to its expenses. ….Some accounting experts say that including income items in SG&A can be confusing. "There's usually a presumption that [SG&A] is only expenses" says J. Edward Ketz, an accounting professor at Pennsylvania State University. For information on how to receive the full story, contact Steve Infanti in the Smeal College Media Relations' Office at smi3@psu.edu .

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