Talk:Net profit

Can't be right
"The gross margin percentage is a related ratio. This figure is calculated by dividing net profit by gross revenue, and it represents profitability as a percentage."

That can't be right. The page author(s) must mean net margin. Net margin is calculated by dividing net profit by gross revenue, and it represents profitability as a percentage. Gross margin, on the other hand, is calculated as explained at Gross margin, and it represents gross profit as a percentage.

Joaquin Miller 06:15, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Maybe they were inspired by Enron's financial staff. I agree.  I'll fix it so I can sleep at night. MeekMark 03:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be appropriate to have one section on accounting with different sub-sections for US and European and perhaps other countries' variations in terminology and practice.

The use of "turnover" in the current article is completely different from the US usage.

Tobyw 10:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Surely Net profit is ambiguous as it can also mean post-tax profit (as in fact mentioned without comment in the article itself). 93.96.236.8 (talk) 14:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Anonymous not-logged-in user that is clueless about wikipedia contribution processes. 5:59, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

The introductory sentence refers to the net profit as the 'top line', but this is incorrect (Revenue would be the top line). Additionally, next paragraph refers to net profit as the 'bottom line which contradicts the earlier vocabulary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:645:4000:BD72:54D8:4C52:3702:BA26 (talk) 06:00, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

The definition of the term is critical....
for any government to define whether an organization is for profit and not for profit

Needs work
I know accounting terms are always going to be eye-glazing, but this article is simply opaque. It needs a thorough re-do, most importantly on any distinction between net income, net revenue, and net profit, which needs to be very lucidly explained without recourse to hyperlinked acronyms. If there's a difference between common use and best accounting practice, note that. If there's a difference between English and British English, note that. — LlywelynII  06:41, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Pre-tax profit
Hi. I don't we can have "Pre-tax profit" pointing here without some or other definition of what it is. Redirects are suppostly (mostly) for concepts that mean the same thing - which is not the case here. Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 19:02, 13 November 2013 (UTC) quite

Proposed merge with Net income
Synonym. Golopotw (talk) 13:56, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support 2.90.210.75 (talk) 13:06, 10 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose but Support the opposite net income is the more common name עם ישראל חי (talk) 14:13, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - IP user 2.90.204.132 just attempted to replace the article with a redirect to Net income. I undid this change because no consensus has been established with this discussion here, and there appears to be content in this article that isn't present on Net income and replacing with a redirect removed this content. This action obviously does not impact the discussion here; just wanted to let everyone here know about this.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   09:26, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Suppoty. Net income and Net profit are synonym and Net Income is much more common.(|Net_profit check page view comparison) In2wiki (talk) 20:47, 1 June 2019 (UTC)