Word: pretax
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...Billboard's pop and R.-and-B. charts in the No. 1 slots, the first time a rap album debuted at the top of both charts. From a bare-bones crew of three operating out of a tiny Hollywood office, Priority has grown into a $53 million enterprise with pretax profit margins...
...largest computer company plans to shed more unprofitable and ill- fitting businesses in 1993 and slash its work force 8%, or 25,000 employees. The latest round of reductions will include the first involuntary layoffs in the company's 78-year history and will result in a $6 billion pretax charge for the fourth quarter...
...said a loss in sales (down $3.3 million to $56.9 million) and the resulting drop in company profits were the primary causes of the rebate cutback. Funds for the rebate come from pretax profits, which were down more than 80 percent, from $2.6 million...
That admission confirmed the bad news businessmen had been reading in their spreadsheets for several months. "In 1991 one market after another turned bad," says Yoshihiko Wakumoto, senior vice president of Toshiba Corp., which now admits that its pretax profits for fiscal 1991, ending March 31, may be down a whopping 42%. In April, when many Japanese companies announce their results for 1991 fiscal year, most will report declining profits. Blue chips like Sony, NEC and Matsushita have all experienced drops of over 40% in pretax profits. Japan's security houses, hit by declining commissions from a falling stock market...
...should be clear by now that the post-tax cost of capital has relatively little influence on both the overall level of investment and the uses of invested funds. In fact, the greatest influence on investment is the prospect for pretax returns. The key questions concern how good a new idea is, how much of a market there is for a particular product and how productively it can be created. The issue -- as Clinton understands far better than Tsongas -- is how to make the entire economy more productive, not how the tax code can be jiggered to induce the wealthy...