Start with the "retained earnings" part: Retained earnings refers to the amount of dough your company has made once it has paid out dividends. If retained earnings are appropriated, this means that they are allotted for another use. Or taken. That is, "appropriate" = taken. And not just in Russia.
For example, you may have total retained earnings of $100,000, but your board of directors allots $7,000 of this for property improvement. This would reflect appropriated retained earnings, which you would see as a separate line item on the balance sheet. In other words, these funds are spoken for (just like that darned portion of your paycheck that you swear you should be able to keep without Uncle Sam dipping his fingers into it so deeply).
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year you had a million bucks in sales and one
hundred grand in after tax earnings About eighty grand of
that earnings was in fact cash Why didn't you retain
in cash one hundred percent of your earnings What happened
to the twenty grand in cash there How did evaporate
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get essentially a tax break because of it meaning you'll
show lesson earning so you'll pay less in taxes but
the cash won't change So this year's hundred grand was
a nice year but last year you had fifty grand
in cash profits and you had twenty grand in cash
Profits the year before then and before then you had
run it just cash flow break even for the previous
five years So it all looked like that So in
total you saved Or rather you retained cash earnings of
eighty plus fifty plus twenty or a sum total of
one hundred fifty grand That all now sits in your
b of a account doing a whole lot of nothing
of intern two percent a year for the privilege that
one hundred fifty grand that you have cumulatively retained Like
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