profit and loss
the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
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How to use profit and loss in a sentence
Sometimes, the business may push more of those dollars into its profit and loss sheet to better balance the pressure on its margins, for example.
‘Effectiveness breeds spending’: Procter & Gamble moves to take more marketing in-house | Seb Joseph | November 17, 2021 | DigidayThey keep a weather eye on the profit-and-loss account, and retire like thrifty traders on a well-earned competency.
This, too, was one of the items in the profit-and-loss column of his experiments.
The Imitator | Percival PollardThe profit-and-loss account in the long run always balances.
The Breath of Life | John Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for profit and loss
accounting an account compiled at the end of a financial year showing that year's revenue and expense items and indicating gross and net profit or loss
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