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| From | rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.electronics.design |
| Subject | Re: don't understand finance |
| Date | 2017-02-09 20:02 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <o7j3at$mt3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <m5ip9cp1jlp97g06g0f234a7threqvje5r@4ax.com> <Zb8nA.347091$3L.303973@fx26.am4> |
On 2/9/2017 7:55 PM, Tom Gardner wrote: > On 09/02/17 19:58, John Larkin wrote: >> >> http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/09/twitter-shares-crash-following-quarterly-earnings-report-release/ >> >> >> How can they have earnings of 16 cents per share, but a loss of $144 >> million in the same quarter? >> >> I wonder what Twitter does to have expenses around a few billion a >> year. The free food and bean-bag chairs can't cost that much. > > Movie stars will accept payment in terms of a share > of the movie's gross receipts, but not its profit. > > Why? Because Hollywood accountants are adept at > ensuring no movie ever make a profit - because > that could be taxed. That's not exactly right. If the movie owes payments on profits then they will make the profit in any of the many service companies that the studio owns rather than the movie itself making the money. Taxes have to be paid by someone if there is profit. If there is no profit, there's not much reason to be in business. The only question is who makes the profit and who pays the taxes. -- Rick C
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don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-09 11:58 -0800
Re: don't understand finance Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-02-09 22:54 +0000
Re: don't understand finance Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-02-09 16:24 -0800
Re: don't understand finance Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-02-10 00:47 +0000
Re: don't understand finance Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2017-02-09 17:58 -0600
Re: don't understand finance Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-02-10 00:55 +0000
Re: don't understand finance rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-09 20:02 -0500
Re: don't understand finance Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-02-09 17:07 -0800
Re: don't understand finance Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2017-02-11 23:57 -0600
Re: don't understand finance rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 01:08 -0500
Re: don't understand finance krw@notreal.com - 2017-02-12 17:03 -0500
Re: don't understand finance pcdhobbs@gmail.com - 2017-02-12 14:18 -0800
Re: don't understand finance krw@notreal.com - 2017-02-12 17:40 -0500
Re: don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-12 14:54 -0800
Re: don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-12 14:51 -0800
Re: don't understand finance Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-02-10 16:07 +0000
Re: don't understand finance Joe Chisolm <jchisolm6@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-10 11:51 -0600
Re: don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-10 11:22 -0800
Re: don't understand finance Joe Chisolm <jchisolm6@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-10 14:11 -0600
Re: don't understand finance Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-10 14:07 -0800
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