How to Use profit and loss in a Sentence

profit and loss

noun

• Build out a new profit and loss statement from a zero base.
  — Pankaj Kulshreshtha, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• The profit and loss statement is a metric of the property’s health.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Business teams: Teams that drive profit and loss and fulfill needs in the customer journey.
  — Mark Cruth, Quartz, 5 July 2023
• 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
• Each quarter, senior teams review pages and pages of profit and loss reports.
  — Heikki Väänänen, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• There have been a lot of expensive movies that China has meant the difference between profit and loss.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Feb. 2022
• This might include a profit and loss (P&L) statement, a balance sheet, and business bank statements.
  — Aly J. Yale, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2022
• For the broadcast-news divisions, the morning shows can make the difference between profit and loss.
  — Sarah Ellison, The Hive, 14 Oct. 2017
• The investor’s net results can include both profits and losses.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• Wall pointed out that those are bare numbers, not a statement of profit and loss or of economic impact.
  — al, 16 Apr. 2021
• But much of it is divorced from any consideration of profit and loss.
  — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Trying to map out a profit and loss statement is more or less impossible.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2019
• Small companies often budget their profit and loss, but not their cash flow.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• This factory does not operate according to the rules of profit and loss.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Not quite, at least not in the way that accountants normally calculate profit and loss.
  — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020
• Hyman reviewed the reports, then decided how to manage profit and loss at each home.
  — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Alongside these constraints is a strong desire (89%) to elevate their impact and take on profit and loss management over the next two to three years.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Milton Friedman used to stress that capitalism is a system of profit and loss.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 16 Mar. 2020
• Not that journalism hasn’t always been a matter of profit and loss, but the Times makes its concern so shabby and obvious.
  — Earl Shorris, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• Any serious scholar of the Victorian Age faces a tricky balance sheet of profit and loss.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• The feedback mechanism of profit and loss signals whether a business is meeting the demands of its customers and workforce.
  — WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
• How great are the worker’s opportunities for profit and loss?
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Leiweke said not every decision is about profit and loss.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 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
• Around that time, a change in local regulations, Netflix had been forced to disclose its profit and loss figures in Korea.
  — Variety, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2023
• The fact is that 95% of humanity (i.e., the less affluent majority) and the health of the planet don’t fit into the industry’s calculations of profit and loss.
  — Jim Fruchterman, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• The role of managing profit and loss (P&L) requires handling the increases and decreases in revenue and costs, and having a holistic understanding of the organization and expenses.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024