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Treatment of Profit on sale of Long term investment

Raman (Artilcle Assistant ) (57 Points)

14 May 2009

Dear All

Pls tell me the treatment of the Profit on sale of Long term Investment & the Dividend earned on the long term investment, whether these transactions will affact the Investment Account or not ( i.e due to these transactions the carrying amount of investment will affactted or not)

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Zainul Tawawalla (Audit ) (101 Points)
Replied 15 May 2009

Profit on sale of investments shall be clasiified as other incomes if the entity is not a finance company and if its a finance company it shall be classified as operating income. (It does not matter whether the investments are sort term/long term as far as accounting is concerned)

Dividend income shall be recognised as other income in case of a non finance company. If the dividends are received in cash, then it does not affect the investments. However, if the dividends are reinvested e.g. mutual funds dividend reinvestment schemes, the income shall be added to the investments carrying value.