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  2. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    Similarly, while financial economists use the word capital to refer to funds used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services, [11] macroeconomists and microeconomists use the term capital to mean productive equipment, buildings or other productive physical assets.

  3. Resource allocation - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the field of public finance deals with three broad areas: macroeconomic stabilization, the distribution of income and wealth, and the allocation of resources. . Much of the study of the allocation of resources is devoted to finding the conditions under which particular mechanisms of resource allocation lead to Pareto efficient outcomes, in which no party's situation can be ...

  4. Earnings before interest and taxes - Wikipedia

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    A professional investor contemplating a change to the capital structure of a firm (e.g., through a leveraged buyout) first evaluates a firm's fundamental earnings potential (reflected by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and EBIT), and then determines the optimal use of debt versus equity (equity value).

  5. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    BAU – Business as usual; BEP – Break-even point; BI – Business intelligence; BIC – Bank identifier code; bldg. – Building BLS – Balance sheet; BOM – Bill of materials; BPO – Business process outsourcing

  6. Income statement - Wikipedia

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    Sankey Diagram - Income Statement (by Adrián Chiogna) An income statement or profit and loss account [1] (also referred to as a profit and loss statement (P&L), statement of profit or loss, revenue statement, statement of financial performance, earnings statement, statement of earnings, operating statement, or statement of operations) [2] is one of the financial statements of a company and ...

  7. Net income - Wikipedia

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    In business and accounting, net income (also total comprehensive income, net earnings, net profit, bottom line, sales profit, or credit sales) is an entity's income minus cost of goods sold, expenses, depreciation and amortization, interest, and taxes for an accounting period.

  8. Revenue - Wikipedia

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    This is included in revenue but not included in net sales. [6] Sales revenue does not include sales tax collected by the business. Other revenue (a.k.a. non-operating revenue) is revenue from peripheral (non-core) operations. For example, a company that manufactures and sells automobiles would record the revenue from the sale of an automobile ...

  9. Revenue management - Wikipedia

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    Revenue management (RM) is a discipline to maximize profit by optimizing rate (ADR) and occupancy (Occ). In its day to day application the maximization of Revenue per ...