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词汇 paper-profit
释义 paper profit
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌpeɪ.pə ˈprɒf.ɪt/ us /ˌpeɪ.pɚ ˈprɑː.fɪt/
a profit that is shown in financial records but has not yet been made by a company, especially because it is waiting for payments it is owed: (尚未实现的)账面利润
The company made a paper profit last year, but they still got rid of six employees.从账面上看,这家公司去年还算是盈利的,但他们仍然辞掉了6名员工。
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paper profit | Business English


paper profit
noun[ C or U ]
 FINANCEukus(alsopaper gain)
an increase in the value of an investment, etc. that appears in accounts, but that does not involve a real increase in cash, for example shares that have risen in value but that have not been sold:
The company has 1 million share options which are showing a paper profit of about £135,000.

Examples of paper profit


paper profit
When there is a take-over bid or reconstruction and the company does not voluntarily sell the securities it technically makes a paperprofit.
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It will show a paperprofit because they will be valued up, but there will not be any money in the till.
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On that day the stags made an actual profit—not a paperprofit: but by selling their allocations they made an actual profit of £324 million.
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As a result, they are all sitting pretty on a paperprofit of nearly half a million pounds.
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As freeholders, their paperprofit on assets doubled, and in some cases trebled, overnight.
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The income tax authorities tax that profit—which is, in most cases, largely a paperprofit and not a cash one.
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That is, of course, only a paperprofit.
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Even though one is earning a higher rate of paperprofit, it is extraordinary how often one finds that one is not fully maintaining the value of the assets.
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The tax on the paperprofit, that is, in terms of currency, is the only one which can be used by the tax gatherer in deciding our affairs.
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In either case he has done nothing wrong, and indeed he has made no money—he has a paperprofit on an asset he wishes to retain.
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Surely, it is not a paperprofit.
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Moreover, it will be regretted that already overseas investors who are not taxpayers in this country will have made a paperprofit of somewhere in the region of £150 million.
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That is a paperprofit of £1,500.
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When the fund sells investments at a profit, it turns or reclassifies that paperprofit or unrealized gain into an actual or realized gain.
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In 2009, it pared its stake to less than 5%, realizing a $1.6 billion profit, with another $1.6 billion paperprofit on its remaining holding.
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