bénéfice d’exploitation

English translation: operating profit

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French term or phrase:bénéfice d’exploitation
English translation:operating profit
Entered by: Stella Woods

03:31 May 17, 2001
French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: bénéfice d’exploitation
Should I translate this as 'earnings' or 'operating profit' or are they exactly the same thing?


L’exercice écoulé se clôture par un bénéfice d’exploitation de 132.371.301 BEF par rapport à 118.719.630 BEF l’exercice précédent.
Stella Woods
Local time: 10:06
Trading Profit / Operating Profit
Explanation:
Or any of the below options:

operating income
trading income
operating result
trading result
trading profit
operating profit
operating return

The choice is yours!

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JLC
Local time: 00:36
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naTrading Profit / Operating Profit
JLC
naoperating profit / trading profit / operating income
Gillian Hargreaves (X)


  

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15 mins
Trading Profit / Operating Profit


Explanation:
Or any of the below options:

operating income
trading income
operating result
trading result
trading profit
operating profit
operating return

The choice is yours!




    Reference: http://eurodic.ip.lu:8086//cgi-bin/edicbin/expert.pl#1
JLC
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17 mins
operating profit / trading profit / operating income


Explanation:
The above terms seem to be synonymous, according to Valente, who defines the French thus: "Bénéfice découlant de l'exploitation de l'entreprise dans son activité normale et réprésentant l'excédent des produits d'exploitation sur les charges d'exploitation avant impôt."


    Michel Valente: Dictionnaire �conomie-Finance-Banque-Comptabilit� Fran�ais-Anglais-Italien; pub. Dalloz
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