Guidelines for Preparing the Income Statement
1. The heading of the income statement must
be placed at the center.
2. The accounts must be arranged from
highest to lowest amount or according to
relative importance to the user.
3. Miscellaneous accounts, whether income or
expense account must be written as the last
account regardless of the amount.
4. The peso sign must be written on the first
amount in every arithmetic operation and
every after ruling.
5. The single rule to all additions and the
double rule for the final results whether it is
net loss or net income must be applied.