paper profit
paper profit · paper profits
Apparent profit shown in accounts but not realized in an expendable formApparent profit shown in accounts but not realized in an expendable form.
Meaning
1 sensesApparent profit shown in accounts but not realized in an expendable form.
The company had paper profits of two million dollars, but everyone knew that depreciation meant they had really lost 10 million.
More definitions
- an unrealized gain on an investment calculated by subtracting the investor's cost from the current market price
Forms
plural: paper profits| Singular | paper profit |
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