All these expenses have the effect of reducing a company's profits.

Cases out there that say the government can reduce profit if risk was reduced due to the change.

Otherwise, they would have to reduce the assumption - and next year's reported profits.

However, salary is a cost to the business and therefore reduces profit.

As a result, the bank's goal is to reduce proprietary profit to 25 percent of the total.

The company conceded that this would reduce sales and profits.

Those charges reduced the company's profits by 17 cents a share in the quarter a year ago.

All told, we expect that for a typical large company the change in accounting rules will reduce profits by about 25 percent.

So you can reduce your business's taxable profits by the full cost of the goods.

That would reduce profits but enable the companies to control their patents.