Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Calculation of Comprehensive Income (Loss)

The calculation of the Company’s comprehensive income (loss) for the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 is as follows (in thousands):


	Three months ended December 31,
	2011			2010
Net income	$	3,006		$	23,486
Change in cumulative translation adjustment		(3,217	)		953
Unrealized gain (loss) on marketable securities		93			(191	)
Actuarial loss		(84	)		—

Comprehensive income (loss)		(202	)		24,248
Comprehensive (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests		(8	)		—

Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Brooks Automation, Inc.	$	(210	)	$	24,248

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) 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; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) 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; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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