You can take known information about the company and apply industry/regional standards.
For example, if it is a retail store, you could estimate sales based on square footage and then estimate profit as a percentage of sales.
If it is a service business, you could estimate income per productive employee, etc.
As a joint stock company profit was the goal.
The stockholder's share of a company's profits are called dividends.
Income and expense for not for profit organisations is same as profit and loss account but they cannot use the name profit and loss account because not for profit organisations are not formed to earn profit.
Tradition, and the need to call it something.
"What are the limitations of profit and loss account?"
: Profit and loss account gives the actual information about net profit or net loss of the business for an accounting period, Profit and loss account gives the actual information about indirect expenses, Profit and loss account serves to show the ratio between net profit to sales, Profit and loss account helps in showing the ratio between net profit to operating expenses, Profit and loss account helps in controlling indirect expenses
details of profit and loss appropriation account Profit and loss appropriation account is prepared after profit and loss account..It s a account where the profits earned by the company is brought in from profit and loss accont and it s distributed to various accounts like interim divident account, provision for taxiation account, general reserve account etc.....it s a account which shows how the profits are distributed in an organisation.....
Profit and loss accont is used to calculate the profit or loss of business while profit and loss appropriation account is used to allocate or distribute net income or loss to share holders or different reserves account.
Yes. Profit and loss account is a nominal account and also trading a/c to be prepared at the end of the year.
Debit balance of Profit & Loss Account represents "Loss"
how to prepare the forecast report of profit and loss account with balancesheet
Yes it is. For partnerships, their P&L account can be divided into 2 parts, the normal P&L account and also the P&L appropriation account. once profit and loss account is prepared to do some adjustment with the net profit , predecided by the management, a separate account is opened named profit and loss appropriation account. :) I LOVE JUSTIN BIEBER