Sunday, April 24, 2011

Gaffe or alright??


Is it a gaffe or is it right.. EBIDTA coming after Net Profit After Tax?? Whatever less knowledge i have about financial statements, EBIDTA comes before PAT?? Please enlighten me.

Source: Hindustan Times- April 24, 2011. Mumbai edition.

2 comments:

  1. EBITDA comes before NPAT. The tax is calculated after involving all expenses (whether cash expenses or non-cash expenses).

    Maybe they did derive the NPAT after EBITDA but to show how well they are doing, they would have calculated NPAT and shown EBITDA.

    A cash profit is derived from EBITDA (Because unlike profit, cash doesn't reduce due to expenses like Depreciation and Amortisation - both of which are non-cash expenses of all firms/ organizations).

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  2. Profound learning indeed!!! thank you

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