Bottom line
the bottom line (noun)
a. the most important and essential facts about something
b. the profit or loss that a company makes
a bottom-line profit
a bottom-line loss
bottom line savings
the bottom line figure
calculating the bottom line
estimating the bottom line
conversation quickly progressed to the bottom line
only interested in improving the bottom line, forgot about customers
a brilliant, if ruthless, accountant whose only concern was the bottom line
a shaky bottom line
quality had an impact on the bottom line
unable to avoid slippage in sales and bottom line performance
effect of the new debt on the bottom line
it will take time for the full bottom line effect to flow through
it's losing market share in price competition impinging right down to the bottom line
improve the bottom line
have an impact on the bottom line
affect the bottom line
will have a bottom line above the previous version of the product
that's the bottom line
the bottom line basics
the bottom line explanation
Example sentences:
* But the bottom line savings through reduced staff turnover could be much greater.
* What will be the effect of new debt on the bottom line, for both the property company and the lender?
* The benefits to be derived from the best practice technique are not in doubt, but it will take time for the full bottom line effect to flow through.
* Del Giudice's biggest enemy within the Rank Organisation was John Davis, a brilliant, if ruthless, accountant whose only concern was the bottom line.
* Obviously it's losing market share price competition impinging right down to the bottom line left right and centre.
* Before this, it was realized that quality had an impact on the bottom line, but there had been little analysis of its effects.
* If someone tells you that the Royal Bank is now only interested in improving its bottom line, and no longer cares about people at all, he's wrong.
* If the conversation didn't quickly progress to the bottom line, it was swiftly terminated.
* These new jets will have a bottom line that is above that of the propliners.
* The bottom line for liability is that you are only legally committed to an agreement made by an agent under the following conditions.
* The bottom line is that we all love music and want to play it.
* Both managers were unable to avoid slippage in sales and bottom line performance, but both have prepared the ground for better performances in the current year with the launching of new ranges and the development of major new sales outlets.
* But for the Thorn deal cash, the bottom line would have looked very shaky.
* Could I just have your bottom line figure again before five.
* All three of them have produced when it comes to bottom line basics.
* The bottom line, says one western ambassador, is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing.
* That's the bottom line!
* At the same time, Ford is not famous for spending money unnecessarily, and AML will also be expected to produce something of more immediate value to the corporate bottom line.
* A profit of eight pounds and fourteen shillings, she wrote in thick black ink neatly on the bottom line.
* In the past customers tended to buy far more on price, but now they are becoming more conscious of the importance of service, more aware that better service can deliver bottom line benefits.
* The bottom line, of course, is who pays.
* The bottom line is what investors watch.
* The bottom line to private investment remains, as always, the extent and nature of government funding.
* This is the bottom line.
* This is the bottom line on who pays is the insurance companies and the householder.
* And anyway, the bottom line should be Cottee is unquestionably a better footballer than Stewart.
* Gender should never be used as a bottom line explanation because it is a social construction needing explanation itself .
* As a manager you have to do the best by your club, and Kenny is doing that, that is the bottom line.
* Indeed, the pervasive appeal of the term bottom line (profit after all deductions) is such that it is often used as the ultimate test of success.
* They aren't accounting books per se but they aren't half bad for calculating the bottom line.
* The bottom line argument against heritage languages was always that they were bad for the children.
