income statement

American  

noun

1. an accounting of income and expenses that indicates a firm's net profit or loss over a certain period of time, usually one year.

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income statement

To date, Boeing has kept the growing costs related to Spirit off its income statement through a quirk in accounting rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

But he named others: “Let’s say orders would slow before the income statement changes. It could be a shrinking backlog. Or it might be a blip” because of bad weather.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Transparency is limited, because the companies don’t say how much depreciation is allocated to each of the various expense lines on the income statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Google’s income statement reflects how valuable SpaceX and Anthropic are getting, Ewens said.

From MarketWatch ● May 2, 2026

Without cloud sales to add to its income statement, Meta’s return-on-investment story is much fuzzier than the others.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

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