Corporate Profit

A religious man with a sponsorship from Nike. A holy man who sold out for money. That’s a corporate “prophet.”

A corporate profit is something completely different. Companies earn revenue from the sales of goods and services. They also incur expenses ranging from marketing costs to the salaries and bonuses of employees.

Subtract the expenses from the top-line revenues, and you get an important number for a company's income statement: its profit. Profits are...what's left. On an income statement, corporate profit is also known as net income.