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Arabic translation: صافي الدخل


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English term or phrase: to bottom line
Arabic translation:صافي الدخل
Entered by: Muhammad Abdulfattah AHMAD
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15:16 Aug 22, 2010
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Government / Politics / Politics
English term or phrase: to bottom line
Furthermore, the Internal Revenue Service allows only twenty-five dollars per gift to qualify for a deduction as a business expense. Anything more than that must go right to the bottom line
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Local time: 08:15
صافي الدخل
Explanation:
Net income is informally called the bottom line because it is typically found on the last line of a company's income statement (a related term is top line, meaning revenue, which forms the first line of the account statement).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_income
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5الحصيلة الماليةHasna Chakir
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Muhammad Abdulfattah AHMAD


  

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صافي الدخل


Explanation:
Net income is informally called the bottom line because it is typically found on the last line of a company's income statement (a related term is top line, meaning revenue, which forms the first line of the account statement).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_income

Muhammad Abdulfattah AHMAD
Egypt
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الحصيلة المالية


Explanation:
bottom line is a term who has two meanings :
الحصيلة المالية
لب المشكلة

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The line in a financial statement that shows net income or loss.
The final result or statement; upshot: "The bottom line, however, is that he has escaped" (David Wise).
The main or essential point: "A lot can happen between now and December, but the bottom line-for now-is that the city is still heading toward default" (New York).


Hasna Chakir
Morocco
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Aug 23, 2010 - Changes made by Muhammad Abdulfattah AHMAD:
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