The net income, or a proportion of it, can either be paid as dividends to the shareholders, or it can be transferred to reserves (retained earnings).

They are mainly three methods used to assess the overall profitability of a project the internal rate of return the net present value the payback period it determines the number of years of operation needed to recoup the investment made (although still widely used, this method has some limitations for example it cannot be used to objectively compare two investment alternatives).

But Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner s much ridiculed bank stress tests made sense (although one can argue that sufficiently dire scenarios were not included or that too much was negotiated with the banks, etc.). Determining the size of likely losses is necessary to decide whether banks retained earnings from profitable ongoing operations and their ability to raise private capital will allow them to work down their toxic assets over time.

Determining the size of likely losses is necessary to decide whether banks retained earnings from profitable ongoing operations and their ability to raise private capital will allow them to work down their toxic assets over time.

Profit

Contribution Fixed overheads Profit

profit 0

Rapidly rising Average cost Rising profits Early adopters

TOTAL RETURN

Profit practically

Gross margin Other expenses Net profit

Standard selling price

(') A adverse, F favourable variance

Indirect costs

Profits Customers Competitors

It's all gravy.

Speed up the payoff.

2004 saw ANA's profits exceed JAL's for the first time.

Since the mid 1990 s, the net current account surplus of all the rest has risen by an amount that one Federal Reserve Bank economist has put at 450 billion a year, not because savings rates have increased, but because investment rates have fallen.

Let's split the profits.

This will surely be happiness supreme.

This will be a great fulfilment.

This will be the great achievement of success.

That is the mighty achievement.

That is the great success (Paradise).

That is the great attainment.

That is the supreme success.

That is the supreme achievement.

That indeed is the mighty triumph.'

That is the supreme triumph.

Pi is profits.

Who profits?

Where do the profits flow?

People, service, profit.

Reconciliation of budgeted and actual net profit Budgeted net profit

Net income loss

A clear profit of 7,500.

4,346 net profit, plus expenses...

This part is used to show the overall profitability of the project and to compare the profitability of this project to other investments alternatives.

But free trade also promises few benefits now and huge benefits in the future.

We try to cash in on it.

They netted a good profit.

The company overstated its profits.

We shared the profit equally.

The next year brought more growth.