How to Use profit and loss in a Sentence

profit and loss

noun
  • This page displays cash flow, expense charts, and profit and loss.
    — PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Small companies often budget their profit and loss, but not their cash flow.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Each quarter, senior teams review pages and pages of profit and loss reports.
    — Heikki Väänänen, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The profit and loss statement is a metric of the property’s health.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • The company did not appear to break out its net profit and loss figures by region.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2024
  • Trying to map out a profit and loss statement is more or less impossible.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Users can use the tool to analyze, sort, or review traders by date, time, symbol, or profit and loss amount.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
  • The investor’s net results can include both profits and losses.
    — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • But much of it is divorced from any consideration of profit and loss.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2019
  • All profit and loss flow through to the business owner’s personal tax returns.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Lenders want to see clear, accurate balance sheets, profit and loss statements and tax returns.
    — Matthew Meehan, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Wall pointed out that those are bare numbers, not a statement of profit and loss or of economic impact.
    — al, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Hyman reviewed the reports, then decided how to manage profit and loss at each home.
    — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Goldmark said the cost of those taxes might mean the difference between a small business’s profit and loss.
    — Shira Ovide, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • Not quite, at least not in the way that accountants normally calculate profit and loss.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020
  • This factory does not operate according to the rules of profit and loss.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But people have evolved to be short-term thinkers, preoccupied with matters of profit and loss in their short lifetime.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2021
  • How great are the worker’s opportunities for profit and loss?
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Publishing is a business, governed by profit and loss like any other business.
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • There have been a lot of expensive movies that China has meant the difference between profit and loss.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Milton Friedman used to stress that capitalism is a system of profit and loss.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 16 Mar. 2020
  • While retailers can feel good about their profit and loss statements, our collective balance sheet isn’t looking so good.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • For the broadcast-news divisions, the morning shows can make the difference between profit and loss.
    — Sarah Ellison, The Hive, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Many of them have hung out their own shingles, using their slide rules to calculate profit and loss while the exciting deals are done by machine.
    — Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
  • Give them a structure that provides upside, irrespective of the parent’s profit and loss.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Exotic lenders do accept profit and loss statements as long as they are countersigned by a tax preparer.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • This might include a profit and loss (P&L) statement, a balance sheet, and business bank statements.
    — Aly J. Yale, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The feedback mechanism of profit and loss signals whether a business is meeting the demands of its customers and workforce.
    — WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • With this, define what the profit and loss (P&L) will need to look like to realize this expectation.
    — Bruce Werner, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • For some people, the stress and volatility of the profits and losses and lack of control, that’s not for everyone, men included.
    — Rachael Levy, WSJ, 19 June 2019

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