profit and loss account
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of profit and loss account
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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"How can anybody factor that in to their profit and loss account? To pick a figure out of the air, and say you've got to pay it, I think is unfair."
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2022
To make this practical, Haier has broken down its 80,000 workforce into hundreds of internal micro companies, each with a profit and loss account even when they are only supplying internal corporate customers.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2013
A profit and loss account, eight; and an account with William Smith, nine.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
An established newspaper is entitled to fix its advertising rates so that its net receipts from circulation may be left on the credit side of the profit and loss account.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
Their use involves also a wholly unnecessary expense for stablemen, feed, and general care, while the yearly deaths among them add heavily to the profit and loss account, on the loss side.
From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston
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