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Introducing the Interest, Taxes, Other Gains and Losses, and Net Profit line items and how to know if a business is profitable.
Links to further reading on tax versus accrual accounting
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All right, we are almost done with
the profit and loss statement.
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But we have a few more
line items to cover.
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Interest in taxes are exactly
what they sound like.
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Interest is an expense of business has for
the interest payments they make for
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any debit facilities they have.
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Taxes are the expense for
any taxes the business has to pay.
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Tax is a massive topic in accounting,
and there's a ton of complexity to it,
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because of the different
tax laws around the world.
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Furthermore, tax accounting rules
are sometimes different than
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book accounting rules.
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So, it's just a complicated topic we
don't have time to cover in this course.
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In the teacher's notes, there are some
links to articles about this,
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if you are inclined to explore it further.
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Other gains and losses are expenses that
don't fit into the categories above.
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Sometimes, these are charges
related to a restructuring, or for
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winding down a business that you
are no longer going to be operating.
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Maybe it's a write-off charge.
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But after all the COGS, SG&A, depreciation
and amortization, interest, taxes, and
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other gains or losses are accounted for,
we arrive at the net profit line.
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Or sometimes is called net income.
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This is the profit profit.
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If a company is profitable, you will see
a net profit and a positive number here.
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If the company is not profitable,
then it is a net loss, and
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you will see a negative number here.
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This line item is the bottom line,
literally, figuratively,
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whatever you want to say.
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So, when people refer to
the bottom line in finance and
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accounting, this is
typically what they say.
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We also see here another example of
the difference between gross and net.
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Gross profit is a profit metric
after COGS have been accounted for.
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But there's lots of other costs
before we get to net profit.
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You use these metrics to
understand different things.
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But don't make the mistake saying, hey,
we made a gross profit this quarter so
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we're profitable.
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That's wrong.
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Okay, pretty cool how much information
there is on the PNL, right?
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We're going to move on to a quiz now and
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in the next stage of this course,
we'll introduce the balance sheet
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