Comment by otterley

Comment by otterley 19 hours ago

5 replies

That headline can't be correct. Income is revenues minus expenses (and a few other things). You can't have both an income and a loss at the same time.

It's $4.3B in revenue.

sotix 3 hours ago

I can only speak as a US CPA, but revenue and income are used interchangeably. You're thinking of net income or profit. It's certainly preferable to use the term revenue instead of income in my opinion however to avoid misunderstandings like this.

rsynnott 6 hours ago

Yeah, I initially thought maybe they were talking about _gross_ income, but, nah, it’s just revenue.

croes 15 hours ago

Every indebted person can tell you that you can have an income and loss at the same time. Income is revenue.

  • otterley 12 hours ago

    We’re talking about a business here. Accounting terms are standard across the industry, and the meaning of income is well understood.

    Unfortunately, journalistic standards vary across the Internet. The WSJ or Financial Times would not make such a mistake.