41.   The Levin-McCain bill would force companies either to recognize the cost of stock options on their income statements or give up option-related tax deductions.

42.   The loss, contained in an audited Patriots income statement, left experts on sports team finances highly skeptical.

43.   Then he combs balance sheets and income statements, seeking clues that a company is inflating profits or faking sales.

44.   There is no straightforward way to estimate the value of an option, the executives say, and any attempt to do so would only muddle income statements.

45.   They also provide the income statement, which details revenues, expenses and profits, and the balance sheet, which lists company assets and liabilities.

46.   To reduce debt and repair income statements whose results may have been puffed up with overly optimistic accounting, power companies may have little choice for now.

47.   Tickets sold in foreign currencies generated fewer kronor on the SAS income statement.

48.   Typically, a company treats its charges for running a marketing program as an expense that reduces earnings on the income statement.

49.   Under current rules, companies receive tax deductions for the options their employees exercise even though the options are considered to have no cost on income statements.

50.   Weizman repeated on Sunday night his previous insistence that his income statements from that period had been approved by respected tax attorneys.