Accounting earnings — Earnings of a firm as reported on its income statement. The New York Times Financial Glossary … Financial and business terms
accounting earnings — earnings of a firm as reported on its income statement. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary … Financial and business terms
Earnings quality — Earnings quality, in accounting, refers to the overall reasonableness of reported earnings. It is an assessment criterion for how repeatable, controllable and bankable McClure, Ben. (n.d.) Earnings: Quality Means Everything . Retrieved June 29,… … Wikipedia
Accounting scandals — Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals, are political and business scandals which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for… … Wikipedia
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — (EBITDA) is a non GAAP metric that can be used to evaluate a company s profitability.::EBITDA = Operating Revenue – Operating Expenses + Other RevenueIts name comes from the fact that Operating Expenses do not include interest, taxes, or… … Wikipedia
earnings management — UK US noun [U] ACCOUNTING ► the use of methods of recording financial information about a company s income that give a false idea of the company s success, which may not be illegal but is considered dishonest: »Some types of earnings management… … Financial and business terms
accounting — ac‧coun‧ting [əˈkaʊntɪŋ] noun [uncountable] 1. ACCOUNTING JOBS the usual word for the profession of accountancy in the US 2. ACCOUNTING the work of keeping a company s financial records, recording its income and expenses, and its business deals:… … Financial and business terms
earnings-related — ˌearnings reˈlated adjective ACCOUNTING relating to the amount of money that you earn and changing in relation to this amount, used especially about a pension scheme: • a state earnings related pension scheme • earnings related contributions * *… … Financial and business terms
earnings basis — ˌearnings ˈbasis noun [singular] FINANCE used to discuss a company s performance based on its profits, rather than other measures of performance: • While not cheap on an earnings basis, the stock s $2 a share in operating cash flow makes it a… … Financial and business terms
earnings per share — (EPS) The net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders divided by weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue. A fully diluted EPS calculation means that the figure is adjusted to take account of shares that will be issued under… … Law dictionary
