The phrase "a total profit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the overall financial gain from a business activity or investment after all expenses have been deducted.
Example: "After reviewing the financial statements, we determined that the company achieved a total profit for the fiscal year."
Alternatives: "overall profit" or "net profit".
Each kilogram can then be sold wholesale for $80,000 — for a total profit in the neighborhood of $1.6 million.
The insiders kept selling shares, earning a total profit of at least $64 million, according to the government.
Mr. Goel testified that Mr. Rajaratnam made him a total profit of about $750,000 in his Schwab account.
Putting this with the foreign-exchange loss gives a total profit for 2006 of 227 billion yuan, or $29 billion.
Another document listed what were presented as winning trades for the first seven months of 2000, with a total profit of 12.9percentt.
Flatiron's funds have produced a total profit of about $3 billion, and the typical venture capital firm takes in about 20percentt of the gain.
If the bonds in the example paid a one-time, $10, dividend each, it would increase the net profit of the bonds by ($10 times 10 bonds equals) $100, for a total net profit of $430.
The big five -- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- made a combined total profit of nearly $1 trillion over the past decade, with ExxonMobil clearing $31 billion in profits this past year alone.
To overcome this disadvantage, this paper aims to collectively optimise a manufacturer's total profit for a portfolio of different products by using a mean-variance optimisation approach.
Buy 3 kegs at $60 each ($180 total), Charge 50 guys $5 each for a cup ($250 total), PROFIT $70 Buy a half gallon of cheap liquor ($15) and jello ($10).
As a result, the total profit that British Gas, Scottish Power, SSE, EDF, npower and E-on make from households leapt by 75 per cent last year to £1.2bn.
