The phrase "a decrease in profit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial performance, particularly when indicating that profits have declined over a specific period.
Example: "The company reported a decrease in profit for the last quarter, prompting management to reevaluate their strategies."
Alternatives: "a drop in profit" or "a reduction in profit."
They would sooner bring down the heavens than post a decrease in profits.
That resulted in a narrower spread between what the bank pays to borrow and what it charges households and businesses, but it didn't lead to a decrease in profits.
Insurers claimed that the storm had the potential to cripple the industry and ruin its ability to pay claims in a year that already had seen a decrease in profits.
Subsidies were promised to carry-out owners to account for any decrease in profit they could have encountered from selling healthy combo meals for 2 months of Phase 3.
Margins within North America and EMEA have also come down recently, due to a decrease in gross profit, coupled with increase in marketing and SG&A expenses.
During the nine months ended September 2014, operating margins in North America and EMEA came down on a year-over-year basis due to a decrease in gross profit coupled with rise in operating expenses.
The clearing price is decided by both sides, so both the high bids from sellers and the low offers from buyers will result in a decrease in the profit or dissatisfaction of the load demand, which helps to lower down the price level.
In Table 2 we present results for our ordered probit model where the dependent variable is an ordered categorical model with three responses; with a value of 1 indicating a decrease in enterprise profits, 2 indicating no change in profits, and 3 representing an increase in enterprise profits.
The combination of both effects leads to a decrease in industry profits after the merger for intermediate values of product differentiation, since in such a case the increase in profits realized by the new entity is more than compensated by the reduction of outsiders' profits when the merger undertakes mixed bundling.
