Despite a surge in productivity, national-accounts profits (as opposed to profits reported by companies, a less accurate measure) fell between 1997 and 2000, even before the economy dipped into recession (see chart).
According to currency traders in New York and Sampa, some fast money accounts were taking profits Monday.
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Traditional temp work now accounts for 70% of profits, down from 96% when Mr Joerres took charge.
Dividends is real way to transfer company earned profits to shareholder accounts.
Schuckenbrock responds that EDS' 65 biggest accounts, providing 70% of profits, are all it needs.
Apple sells just 9% of the cellphones out there (smart or otherwise) but accounts for 73% of industry profits.
The windfall profits of oil companies in recent months are derivative largely from their overseas investment - the North Sea, as far as BP is concerned, only accounts for 10% of its profits.
China currently accounts for 10% of group profits.
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What's more, the costs of assembling the data burdens our accounts you just get the profits.
Office accounts for 56% of total company profits and offers vastly more features and functions than anyone uses.
The company's pallet business - called CHEP - is the world's largest, and accounts for half of Brambles' operating profits.
They have also made huge revisions to corporate profits as measured in the national accounts.
The Uzbek prosecutor general's office now claims that by overcharging for these imports and taking straightforward trading commissions, the Maqsudis siphoned off much of CCBU's profits and stashed them in offshore accounts to avoid tens of millions of dollars in taxes.
The Dutch trading company accounts for 31% of First Pacific's profits.
What would really grab the attention of foreign investors and local companies would be China's granting full convertibility on capital accounts, allowing free-flowing investment and repatriation of profits.
Its huge, long-running contract with Saudi Arabia, known as al-Yamamah, accounts for more than a quarter of its pre-tax profits, according to Mr Fothergill.
Persons able to bribe officials for export permits or smuggle raw materials like oil or copper or weaponry abroad are successfully turning large profits in hard currency which conveniently disappear into foreign bank accounts.
OK, maybe not all, but whatever rents there are, whatever excess profits, are going to end up in the Facebook bank accounts, not those of Spotify.
UBS, thousands of Americans with UBS accounts sued for the penalties, interest, and costs they incurred from their scrape with the IRS. They also sued for hundreds of millions in profits they claim UBS reaped by inducing them to maintain UBS accounts.
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The second, duller piece is Vivendi Environment, which accounts for around half of the group's turnover and 60% of its profits, but which does not have the potential of the media and telecoms arm.
Leasing still accounts for around 65% of group revenues, and probably more than 90% of profits, according to Paul Heaton of Deutsche Bank.
But they would be reporting an awful lot less in profits as a result of reporting options under the tax rules in their public accounts.
From the national income accounts (in fact, one of the ways we can calculate that GDP) corporate profits are in the 10-20% of GDP range in most economies.
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Still, such regulations can stop neither multinational companies, which may repatriate profits, nor determined wealthy individuals, who travel frequently, hold foreign bank accounts and run their own cross-border businesses.
Most damaging was his unapologetic account of how he diverted profits and value from Sibneft to his own pockets and to the Swiss bank accounts of his well connected friends.
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In its accounts, international operations make up around a quarter of its revenues (and only an eighth of its profits).
China now accounts for about 18% of London-based SABMiller's beer volumes, but less than 5% of profits due to much lower margins that the firm's traditional Western markets.
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