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Lesson 21

How a company makes money

Revenue, costs, profit

Revenue is everything a company takes in. Costs such as wages, materials and rent are deducted. What remains is the profit.

The balance sheet in brief

The balance sheet shows what a company owns and how that is financed: with the owners' equity or with debt. A lot of debt makes a company more vulnerable when business is poor.

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