Those forces profit from the current policy environment and fear loss of profit should it change.
In the private sector, the leverage a business is trying to exert is economic, for instance claiming a loss of profit.
However, it also has the unintended consequence of incentivizing further profit loss of international firms to their foreign counterparts.
Poor writing in business has an impact on the bottom line, leading to loss of customers and profit, while poor writing within an organization can lead to costly inefficiencies and communication breakdown.
By that definition, when Rajaratnam traded Goldman Sachs (GS) shares after getting word from a Goldman director that it would report a loss instead of a profit, as investors had expected, he was clearly breaking the law.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges reported last November that medical-loss ratios of for-profit HMOs paying a flat fee to doctors for treatment averaged only 70% of their premium revenue.
For a long position that has become very profitable, you may move your stop-sell order from the loss to the profit zone to safeguard against the chance of realizing a loss in case your trade does not reach your specified profit objective, and the market turns against your trade.
The company has experienced a two-quarter streak of profit loss.
It could well be the case that future Olympic historians will treat the corruption scandals as a minor blip, while the turning of the Games from loss to profit is viewed as the action that saved the type of Olympics that we see today.
Excluding special items, the company reported a non-GAAP loss of 19 cents a share, worse than the profit of 16 cents a share that the Street had expected.
Without the rigid discipline of profit and loss, crony capitalist sleaze like Solyndra becomes certain.
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Coca-Cola follows the policy of director Warren Buffett in counting option grants as part of profit and loss.
Various costs are subtracted from the revenues to calculate various progressively smaller measures of profit and loss: gross income, net income, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), taxable income, etc.
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But what I do know for sure is that by subsidizing the marriage of Bear Stearns and JP Morgan, the government has removed some of the loss from the profit and loss system.
Center-Tainment on the other hand, has a market value of 130 million euros, and no known cash flow statement or profit and loss accounts to speak of.
Analysts are expecting a loss of 5 cents per share, a swing from a profit of 18 cents a year ago.
They project a loss of 9 cents a share after the company booked a profit of 82 cents a year ago.
Analysts are expecting a loss of 10 cents per share, a swing from a profit of 7 cents a year ago.
Analysts are expecting a loss of 17 cents per share, a swing from a profit of 15 cents a year ago.
They are expecting a loss of 14 cents a share after the company booked a profit of 29 cents a year ago.
He sees the company posted a loss of a penny a share in 2011, with a profit of 39 cents a share in 2012.
Moreover, NAFE discovered that women represent 42% of the executives in profit-and-loss positions and comprise one third of its board of directors, which is significantly higher than the national average.
In the most recent quarter, the company posted a loss of 20 cents per share, versus the consensus estimate for a profit of 7 cents per share.
More than direct profit and loss, sponsorships of highbrow sporting events are about brand building.
For 2013, he goes to a loss of 41 cents a share from a profit of 14 cents.
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From that innocent purpose has blossomed an entire science of dressing up profit and loss statements and calling the results pro forma.
As private equity and hedge funds back one company or industry over others, they are open to the possibility of stratospheric profit and catastrophic loss.
For 17 years, GERS has meant the reckoning by St Andrew's House number-crunchers of Scotland's profit and loss accounts.
When you feel your heart racing, either in euphoric anticipation of profit or paralyzing fear of loss, you have to step back and consider the numbers dispassionately.
The bank reported a net loss of 2.17bn Swiss francs for the July to September period, compared with a profit of 1.02bn Swiss francs a year earlier.
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