You may have a 9-to-5 job. Or maybe you work at a company or restaurant for the bulk of your week. This is your primary job, where most of the money you earn derives.
But this is America, and things aren't cheap. You may have a second job dressing up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at kids' birthday parties. Times is hard.
Treat yourself like a business: When you add up all of your money for the week, you have your “revenue.” The money from your primary job represents your core revenues.
Now, subtract all of the ongoing expenses from that core job, and any nonrecurring charges that might impact your period of work (that would write off as an expense). Now you have your core earnings.
For accountants, core earnings are a very important number on a Profit and Loss statement. However, it's not a recognized feature of GAAP standards. It's really just a metric that allows managers and investors to know how profitable the primary part of a business is at a specific point in time.
You’ll hear the term core earnings quite a bit around earnings season. A company might report earnings per share that underwhelm investors. However, an analyst will point to “core earnings per share” which doesn't take into consideration nonrecurring charges.
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finance a la shmoop what is earnings per share or EPS? okay you know the lemonade
stand the one with 20 grand in sales and 16 grand in gross profits and yeah will [Balance sheet for Lemonade Stands R Us appears]
spare you the gross jokes you know the customer asks lemonade.. what the fly
was doing in his lemonade and yes of course she said the backstroke what else
would you expect from the people at Schmo really?
so after gross profits there were operating expenses like those and then
operating profits down here that 7,500 thing then there were taxes and yeah
there are always taxes we can grumble about and then finally net income aka [Net income appears on balance sheet]
earnings but then below earnings you'll see that there are a hundred shares in
this little company the founder owns 60 of them mom owns 10 the new stepdad owns
20 he was guilted into it by you know the divorce lawyer and Enrique the
gardener for some reason who has cleverly weaseled his way into the
families arts and minds owns the last 10 its annual report time and the investors
want to know what their earnings per share were so that they can all compare
relative performance on their investments right so the total earnings
of the company in this example was five thousand two hundred fifty bucks which
means that the earnings per share of our little lemonade stand company here or
that 5,250 figure divided by a hundred or 52.50 a share that's [EPS formula appears]
what each share earned if you divvy the company into a hundred little pie slices
or parts so yeah earnings per share equals earnings per slice o pie or wait
lemonade pie has that been done yet time for a new business venture what do you [A plate of lemonade pie appears]
think we're taking investors just call us please
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