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''Accounting.''
1.  


Cash flows from investing activities are those resulting from investing in - or disposing of - resources for future cash generation.
''Tax and accounting.''
 
Profit after tax, also known as Earnings.
 
 
2.
 
More generally, profit calculated after taking account of related expenses.
 
Sometimes referred to informally as ''the bottom line'' because of its position at (or near) the bottom line of an Income statement.
 
The alternative term ''net income'' may refer to either of the definitions of Net profit in 1. and 2. above.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Cash flow statement]]
* [[Bottom line]]
* [[Cash in the new post-crisis world]]
* [[Earnings]]
*[[Cash investing in a new world]]
* [[Gross profit]]
* [[Income statement]]
* [[Operating profit]]
 
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]

Revision as of 15:53, 30 May 2015

1.

Tax and accounting.

Profit after tax, also known as Earnings.


2.

More generally, profit calculated after taking account of related expenses.

Sometimes referred to informally as the bottom line because of its position at (or near) the bottom line of an Income statement.

The alternative term net income may refer to either of the definitions of Net profit in 1. and 2. above.


See also