Sentence examples for gross or net from inspiring English sources

ONE chief issue is whether an Internet company should report its transactions "gross" or "net," that is, should it regard as revenue the entire value of what it sells, like an airline ticket, or only its profit from the deal.

And as these more complex and esoteric instruments are over-the-counter contracts with no central clearing or reconciliation, it is simply not possible to know who holds what gross or net exposure, where they are, and what chain reactions would ensue".

There are of course many other scenarios of practical interest, but in this paper we concentrate on maximizing the expected (gross or net) profit.

"I should have asked whether the salary was gross or net, because the first year I was spending almost everything on rent," says Mineur.

There are several ways of measuring it - in cash terms or as a percentage of GDP and either gross or net, which involves deducting state-owned financial assets.

Sophisticated investors say that it doesn't matter whether revenue is reported on a gross or net basis, because profits are the same either way.

The gross margin-GHG emission trade-off is £0.15 kg−1 CO2 eq and the energy-GHG emission trade-off is 0.03 GJ kg−1 CO2 eq which represent the gross margin or net energy forgone per kg of CO2 eq emissions saved when comparing the gross margin and net energy model solutions against the GHG emission solution.

No one seems to have a good handle on either gross exposures or net exposures to anything that is classified as a "credit event".

Better to tax gross receipts or net receipts or turnover or value added or something else that clearly transacts in the home country.In any event, I have never quite understood why a profitable corporation of $100m turnover should pay a tax while an unprofitable corporation of $100m should not.

► All cereal straw is baled for sale when gross margin or net energy is maximised.

Calculate the commission based on gross margin or net profit if your company uses a profit-based commission system.