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''Economics''.  
1. ''Group accounting''.  
   
   
A product which may be used instead of another product.
From an accounting group’s perspective, profit may be unrealised when goods have not yet been sold external to the group, even if they have been sold from one group company to another.


For example tea in place of coffee.
 
2. ''Company law and financial reporting.''
 
Profit whose realisation in the form of cash, or other assets readily convertible into cash, is not yet sufficiently certain to allow its recognition in financial statements.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Complementary product]]
* [[Financial reporting]]
* [[Demand]]
* [[Group]]
* [[Internal trading]]
* [[Profit]]
* [[Realisation]]
* [[Recognition]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]

Revision as of 11:01, 25 August 2019

1. Group accounting.

From an accounting group’s perspective, profit may be unrealised when goods have not yet been sold external to the group, even if they have been sold from one group company to another.


2. Company law and financial reporting.

Profit whose realisation in the form of cash, or other assets readily convertible into cash, is not yet sufficiently certain to allow its recognition in financial statements.


See also