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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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With these figures at hand, GM directors sat down last week to do even more than President Roosevelt and his proposed tax on undivided profits would have them do.

From Time Magazine Archive

The anticipated equity after the reorganization is $25,000,000 in common stock capital and $25,000,000 in surplus, undivided profits and reserves � a total of $50.000,000, indicating a write-off of $56,600,000.

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

More than $5,000,000 was used this year for write-off and reserves and Mr. Baker proposed to draw on surplus and undivided profits for an additional $6,500,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the former date capital, deposits, surplus, and undivided profits amounted to $2,462,456,677.92, and on the latter date to $2,567,288,143.45.

From A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States by Juglar, Clément

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