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Other Comprehensive Income

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Capital Stock and Other Comprehensive Income Loss [Abstract]

Other Comprehensive Income

Note 12 — Other Comprehensive Income

Other comprehensive income consists of:

		For the Year
		2011				2010				2009
		(In thousands)
Consolidated net income		$	9,241			$	5,834			$	61,574
Change in fair value of interest rate swap agreement (matured in 2010)			—				393				1,546
Income tax effect of change in fair value			—				(137	)			(542	)
Other comprehensive income			9,241				6,090				62,578
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests			(2,087	)			(709	)			(2,467	)
Other comprehensive income attributable to Forestar Group Inc.		$	7,154			$	5,381			$	60,111

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The entire disclosure for comprehensive income. Includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. Components of comprehensive income include: (1) foreign currency translation adjustments; (2) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (3) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (4) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (5) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (6) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (7) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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