Example sentences of "profit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course you are still bound to make ends meet , but you no longer have to make all your decisions in terms of money profit as the first requirement . |
| 2 | To see profit as the prime motivation to LMS would be to detract from the sense of involvement and success that support staff may potentially receive from its effective management . |
| 3 | Although Mensch 's theory is in the same tradition as Schumpeter 's , the mechanism that triggers the clustering of innovations is industry 's common experience of low rates of profit as the profitability of the old family of technology that fuelled the last boom is exhausted . |
| 4 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 5 | Whether to use post-tax profit , pre-tax profit or trading profit as the starting profit figure . |
| 6 | The profit diagram of the ‘ short ’ share investment reveals the exact opposite relationship between price and profit as the long share investment . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the tender offer by Hillsdown Holdings resulted in a stagging profit as the price at the end of the first day of trading was 33p higher than the striking price of 145p ( minimum 120p ) . |
| 8 | If instead of paid work , you are thinking of becoming self-employed or setting up a business , you will not only have the start-up costs but , as you are probably well aware , very few new enterprises make a profit during the first two or three years . |
| 9 | The US operating margin was narrowly the highest , but the rise of over half in interest charges limited the rise in pre-tax profit for the whole group to 10 per cent , at £427million . |
| 10 | Profit for the year was 8.04 per cent and Walton duly donned a grass skirt and wiggled away . |
| 11 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 12 | Sabic announced a SR 1952m ( $521m ) net profit for the first nine months of 1991 , on a turnover of SR 6391m . |
| 13 | The Group pre-tax profit for the year was £32.2 million , against a comparable figure of £29.9 million the previous year . |
| 14 | The potential extra profit for the farmer is an impressive £7150 . |
| 15 | The other is to imply , by crediting before the deduction of dividends an amount equal to the goodwill component , that profit for the period is calculated after the goodwill release . |
| 16 | A statement of total recognised gains and losses , as required by FRS 3 , shows that the profit for the half year of £32.6m is boosted by currency translation differences on foreign currency net investments of £3.2m to produce total recognised gains and losses for the period of £35.8m . |
| 17 | At the bottom of the group P&L account , BOC gives two eps figures : 19.34p based on published profit for the financial year , and 44.15p before the goodwill write-off . |
| 18 | TI 's interim pre-tax profit for the six months to 30 June 1992 stood at £50.2m on a turnover of £471m , slightly less than the comparable 1991 figure ( £54.2m on a turnover of £441m ) . |
| 19 | Pre-tax profit for the year fell to £809,000 ( v £1.154m ) . |
| 20 | Because the parent company will not be producing its own p&l account for publication ( having taken the exemption in the Companies Act 1985 ( s 230 ) where consolidated accounts are produced ) , the notes to the parent company 's individual balance sheet will show the company 's profit for the financial year , which includes the gain of £1.1m . |
| 21 | The charge for taxation is based on the profit for the period and takes into account taxation deferred or accelerated because of timing differences between the treatment of certain items for accounting and taxation purposes . |
| 22 | • Continuing Group pre-tax profit up by 30 per cent to £1.71 billion , greater than the pre-tax profit for the entire Group in 1988 . |
| 23 | As long as we feel we can sell them on and make a profit for the NECCR then we will be happy . |
| 24 | They point out that when you hand over your housekeeping at the Sainsbury checkout , more than seven per cent of your money is pure profit for the store chain . |
| 25 | Retained profit for the financial year was £221,387 , compared with £951,027 . |
| 26 | Operating profit for the year fell to £2,450m from £3,400m last year again as a result of redundancy charges . |
| 27 | Cadmus Communications Inc has turned in third quarter net up 12.6% at $1.2m , on turnover up 6.7% at $50.1m ; net profit for the nine months was up 15.4% at $3.2m , on turnover that rose 5.6% to $146.4m . |
| 28 | California Amplifier Inc has reported fourth quarter net profits up 34% at $840,000 , on turnover up 50.2% at $10.4m ; net profit for the year to February 27 was up 92.9% at $3.1m , on turnover that rose 73.4% to $35.8m . |
| 29 | Cisco Systems Inc saw third quarter net up 99.3% at $46.3m , on turnover up 88.6% at $172.4m ; net profit for the nine months was up 106.9% at $118.2m , on turnover that rose 93.9% to $443.8m . |
| 30 | CMS Enhancements Inc saw third quarter net profits of $83,000 against losses of $1.2m last time , on turnover down 45.4% at $15.7m ; net profit for the nine months stood at $195,000 against losses of $7.6m last time , after $4.5m restructuring charges last time , on turnover that by fell 37.2% to $55.2m . |