accumulated profit
noun[CorU]
ACCOUNTINGukusapartof theprofitthat acompanyhas made but has notpaidtoshareholders
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accumulated profit
More fixed capital is going into industry, and the result is that the totalaccumulatedprofitis greater than ever.
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They proceed to accumulate them, and one can now buy debentures with six or seven years'accumulatedprofit.
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We face somewhat difficult positions in relation to debt andaccumulatedprofitand loss.
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Such an overseas company has an original capital of £100 and anaccumulatedprofitbalance of £100.
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This is the point at which to discuss theaccumulatedprofit.
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With respect, we are not talking about the practice in the future; we are talking aboutaccumulatedprofitfrom the past.
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A company would be stripped of assets and accumulated profits before its tax fell due, leaving it then unable to pay.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This eliminates one very significant source of investment, the accumulated profits of local firms.
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When memory in fitness is large, differences in accumulated profits can become sufficiently large to cause the majority of traders to switch to destabilizing trading rules.
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The accumulated profits, which have been divided, according to his behest, for charitable purposes, amount to upwards of £7000.
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