The phrase "achieve surplus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, economics, or resource management, where one aims to generate more than what is needed or expected.
Example: "The company implemented new strategies to achieve surplus in their annual budget."
Alternatives: "generate excess" or "attain surplus".
"With blood, tears and looting, they will achieve surpluses like those achieved by Ceausescu in Romania and Pinochet in Chile," said Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the main leftist opposition party Syriza.
He reasonably calls for a return to the Clinton-era tax rates, a period when not only jobs, growth, and productivity performed significantly better than today, but prosperity was more broadly shared and the budget achieved surplus.
The proportion of IVF cycles where a single embryo was transferred electively and surplus embryos cryopreserved altered significantly from 1.9% of all cycles achieving surplus embryos cryopreservation (5/263) in 2004/2005 to 38% (129/342) in 2006/2007 (RR 21.9, 95% CI 9.1 52.7, P <0.001).
Through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees, and removal of corporate tax loopholes, the state achieved surpluses of around $600 700 million during Romney's last two full fiscal years in office, although it began running deficits again after that.
Provided the recovery is sustained, our goal is to achieve that surplus in the next Parliament.
The co-op in Maine, Community Health Options, managed to achieve a surplus last year.
Osborne could well be in the position of having to ask a deeply split Conservative party to back fresh austerity measures in order to achieve his surplus.
In recent weeks Morrison and his finance minister, Mathias Cormann, have said it was only a projection, not the government's policy to achieve a surplus by 2020-21.
Greece has only just managed, in 2013, to achieve a surplus on its primary budget (ie, excluding interest payments), of 1.5% of GDP.
