undivided profits

American  

plural noun

1. earnings that have neither been distributed as dividends to stockholders nor transferred to the earned surplus account.

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undivided profits

With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Combined capital of the two banks is $38,500,000; combined surplus and undivided profits are $53,082,662 ; combined total resources $726,399,324.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under an undivided profits tax, the corporation might declare the same dividends with the result that it would have to pay 35% on the remaining $500,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

To handle increasing inventories and new expansion without suffering under the undivided profits tax, Abbott stockholders last week authorized issuance of 50,000 shares of $100 preferred stock, of which only 20,000 will be issued immediately.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's the surplus and undivided profits account of your business, and until the concern accumulates a big one it isn't safe to move into offices on Easy Street.

From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer

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