Talk:Pro forma/Archives/2013

Example
"such as adjusting the current balance sheet to fix faulty accounting practices in previous years."
 * Can you give an example of this.--Jerryseinfeld 12:57, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Changing use: "proforma" to become a noun?
Has anyone else noticed the way in which proforma has started to be used to refer to a form document usually pre-formatted with space to add information. The tendency is then to call this document a proforma, effectively transforming the adjectival phrase into a noun.

I have noticed this in government in Australia where governments are now producing "proformas", note the plural, for funded organisations to enter data about their operations.

--Rainbowpitta 10:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

More than extraordinary and restructuring
Pro forma earnings excludes many other big ticket items, other than the piece suggests: R&D, Stock Option Compensation, Discontinued Items, and certain types of losses.

Addition of the Legislation section
Hello.

I thought it would be appropriate to add a Legislation section because, in my opinion, the Legal procedings section did not address this subject (I thoroughly checked before making the addition). If anyone requires sources as per the facts in the new section, I would be happy to provide them upon request.

FiveParadox 15:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Invoice
whats a pro forma invoice?

81.138.146.237 10:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

A Proforma might be a document indicating that which might be supplied without specifying the terms of payment but a Proforma Invoice is submitted to obtain payment before the goods are despatched.

italics
pro forma is a foreign word, and therefore should probably be italicized throughout, and reference to the rule of italics for foreign words might be referenced. cc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.0.186 (talk) 12:18, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

It is a latin word; however, it is so commonly used in the English lang. that we don't italicize it anymore. Like cafe, example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.204.16.2 (talk) 21:51, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

confusing: report losses as profits
It is unclear to me, and presumably many other readers, why or how [excluding unusual circumstances] results in [reporting losses as profits] ?

If someone in the know could clear this up, that would be nice.

Thank you.

Business & International Trade sections mostly redundant on pro forma invoices
While a subsection of International Trade uses of pro forma invoices certainly seems appropriate to differentiate those specifics from pro forma invoices in the general sense, it should likely be closer to/included under the Business section. Much of the International Trade section is a repeat of portions of the Business section, though there is some incremental info.

Are pro forma invoices a substantial enough topic for a stand-alone page? They are addressed on the Invoices page in limited detail. Se7ens (talk) 23:36, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Missing definition - preformatted form
A major use of pro-forma is missing from this article. That's in the sense of a document that is often used, preformatted, with headings already present, with spaces provided to fill in information. Here's a link to an example:

http://www.guidance-research.org/lmi-learning/practice/report_writing

http://www.westberks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=15711&p=0

Other examples would be weekly reports, summary of site visits etc. I think this is linked to the meaning already mentioned in the article: "documents that are done as a pure formality".

I don't see an application form as an example of a pro-forma. I get the sense that a pro-forma is a pre-formatted form that you often fill out, on a regular basis.

According to some definitions:

World English Dictionary: pro forma — adj 1.	prescribing a set form or procedure

Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary Main Entry: pro for·ma [...] 2 : provided or made in advance ...

I'm not sure how to integrate this into the article. RedTomato (talk) 16:01, 14 June 2011 (UTC)