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• A business has to make a profit.
• Since it was set up two years ago, the company hasn't earned a profit but could break even this year.
• Coca-Cola reported strong profits in the latest quarter.
• They will have to produce and sell more than 300,000 cars a year to turn (= make ) a profit on the model.
• We've got to see the economy recover, and we've got to see corporate profits (= those of companies in general ) increase.
• They controlled the market for the stock and drove it up to artificially high prices, netting themselves and others excess profits (= profits that people think are too high ) .
• The company said that sales and profits increased in four of its major divisions.
• Developers continue to cut down the forest for economic gain.
Proceeds are all the money that you get from selling something, or from something such as a show or sports event:• The proceeds from the sale of the house went to his brother.
A surplus is the amount of money that remains after a company or organization has paid all its costs, charges, wages etc:• The division's surplus last year was under $10 million.
Interest is an amount of profit that you make at an agreed rate when you put money into a bank or when you lend money to someone:• The best rate of interest the banks can offer is around 7%.
Return is the total profit that you get as a result of putting money into a bank, company etc:• How can I get the best return on my capital?
• Returns from farming have been declining for many years.
Yield is the exact amount of profit that you get as a result of lending money to a company, government etc:• Shareholders should not expect a high yield this year.
• The insurer recorded fourth-quarter profit of 86 cents a share, compared with year-earlier net income of 82 cents.
• The available reserves of its accumulated profit were reduced by workers' demands so that there was little money for capital investment.
• The decline in after-tax profit was the result of significantly higher tax charges.
• Philips will report a book profit of about Fl1,800 million on its sale of shares in TSM.
• If the land was revalued and stated in the balance sheet at its current price, this would result in the company making a book profit.
• Solvay's consolidated profit fell 20% because of lower margins in its plastics sector.
• Preference dividends can be accumulated if there are not sufficient distributable profits to pay them in a particular financial year.
• There was a further reduction of corporation tax on reinvested income, while distributed profits remained taxable at 42%.
• The insurer reported that gross profit, before taxes and losses on equity and foreign-exchange operations, edged down 1%.
• Their contract stipulated that they were entitled to a fee of 41% of the film's net profit.
• Profit after tax, or net profit payable to shareholders, rose to £20.1 million.
• The company reported $3.9 million in operating profit before interest, cash and depreciation, on revenue of $15.3 million.
• Many investors are sitting on fat paper profits from the rally, and are worried about losing those profits if the market has peaked.
• The company reported pretax profit of 175 billion yen, net of 94 billion yen on sales of 3.228 trillion yen.
• Sponsorship income is pure profit for the club because there are no costs associated with it.
• Furr's wants to use retained profits for expansion and renovation.
• Corporations can deduct their interest expenses from taxable profits.
• Both foreign-exchange trading profit and gains from the sales of securities were lower in the quarter.
• BAT said trading profit from its commercial activities rose 28%.
• Undistributed profits should be allowed to accumulate free of tax.
• Should the Automobile Association sell its commercial activities and distribute a windfall profit to its members?
• Tiger profited by anticipating the fall in the Tokyo stock market.
• Coca-Cola profited from a weaker dollar and higher sales overseas.
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The group has had an uneven record in recent years, swinging back and forth between profits and losses.
make/realize/turn a profit »The company said it had made a profit of about £1.4bn on the deal.
after-tax/pre-tax profit »Pre-tax profits rose 22.3% to £13.7m.
»The expectation is that both turnover and trading profit will have increased during last year.
sell sth at a profit »A realized gain occurs when we sell an investment at a profit.
profit on sth »He will make a $431m profit on the sale.
for profit »Banks made new loans, then swiftly sold them off for profit, using the proceeds to extend still more.
report profits »In the year to March the company reported profits after tax of €900,000.
profits fall/increase/rise »Sales and profits rose last year.
»Concerns have been raised that a stagnating economy is hampering corporate profit growth.
»boost/increase profits
»an increase/jump/rise in profit
»a drop/fall in profit
»big/record/strong profits
»future/short-term/small profits
»annual/corporate/taxable profits
Traders can profit by buying the stocks back later at lower prices.
profit from sth/doing sth »Many companies will profit from the fall in interest rates.
I profited enormously from working with her.
Financial and business terms. 2012.