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#The chosen capital structure; or
#The chosen capital structure; or
#Taxation.
#Taxation.



Revision as of 20:14, 17 November 2015

(PBIT).

A measure of the operating profitability of a business, before taking account of the effects of either:

  1. The chosen capital structure; or
  2. Taxation.


The purpose of the PBIT measure is to facilitate comparability of underlying businesses, cleaned of any distortions caused by different capital structures or different tax positions.


See also