Reported net non-operating charges and gains are those non-operating items reported on the face of the income statement. According to the paper, “Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence” by Ethan Rouen, Eric So, and Charles C.Y. Wang, they are “similar in magnitude… to those reported off the face of the income statement”. Examples of such items are interest expense/income, minority interest income, preferred dividends, asset impairments, and losses on debt extinguishment, as this except from the Commercial Metals Company’s 2023 10-K shows:
These items are added back to net income in order to arrive at a measure of net operating profit after tax (NOPAT).