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retained profit

Profit after tax which is not distributed to shareholders. It is kept back by the business organization to finance investment. In the UK, retained profit is the most important source of finance for private sector investment in a typical year.
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In a meeting of the Bank for International Settlements' Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, central banks and financial supervision authorities from Japan, the United States, European nations and others agreed that the ''predominant form of Tier 1 capital must be common shares and retained earnings.
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Taipei, June 29, 2009 (CENS) -- Companies with public offering can make cash-dividend payout from their retained earnings and legal reserves, so long as they are not in the red, according to the revised Company Law, scheduled to be passed by the Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) this Thursday (July 2).
Revised law relaxes restriction on cash-dividend payout by The Taiwan Economic News
 
 
 
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