BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Revenue
- the income generated by a product or service over a period of time
Wiktionary Definition for: Revenue
- #the net gain before subtracting the loss.
- #the money flowing into some government or administration cash by taxation
Additional Resources
- MLB's Revenue-Sharing Formula
- MLB's revenue-sharing program prevents large-market teams, like the Yankees and Red Sox, from dominating the league every year. Here's how the program affects revenues, payroll, and the competitive balance of baseball. Identifying the Imbalance In 1999, a “blue ribbon” panel...
- Articles 2008-07-14
- Update: SAP earnings rise as revenue continues to slip
- IDG News Service - SAP's revenue fell in the third quarter, but earnings rose -- although neither figure was as high as analysts had hoped. The company said it expected the decline in software and software-related service revenue to continue. Revenue totalled €2.51 billion ($3.66 billion) for the third quarter,...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Subtle Issues in Revenue Recognition
- The article illustrates the fact that concerns related to the recognition of revenue in accordance with GAAP have risen in significance. Not only the fraudulent acts of recording revenue improperly through sham transactions, but subtler practices, such as recognizing revenue before it is earned, have drawn more intense regulatory scrutiny....
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Salesforce's Deferred Revenue Debacle
- Following a beat and raise quarter last night for online software vendor Salesforce’s CRM, the rewards are not what you might expect, the shares down $12.05, or 18.5%, at $53.25 by Thursday's market close. The company’s forecast for profit of 34 cents to 35 cents for the current quarter, excluding...
- External links 2008-08-21
- Kraft Says Won't Overpay For Cadbury as Revenue Misses
- By Brad DorfmanCHICAGO (Reuters) - Kraft Foods Inc KFT, which posted weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue and cut its full-year sales forecast on Tuesday, said it would not overpay for British chocolatier Cadbury Plc CBRY.Investors in both companies had hoped strong quarterly results would bolster the value of Kraft's initial $16.7 billion...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Gartner says semi market has performed better than expected, ups 2009 revenue estimate
- Gartner Inc has once again bettered its expectations for 2009, now calling for a worldwide semiconductor revenue decline of 17.1%. The estimated decline is down significantly from Gartner's February forecast calling for an up to 24.1% drop and is also down from the company's May projection calling for a 22.4%...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Knowing the Right Time to Recognize Revenue
- Products and services can be sold and marketed in many different ways. Guidance is available about how to recognize revenue record income from the most common types of transaction, but it's not possible to provide for every situation—so considerable professional judgment is needed in the less straightforward cases.What You Need...
- Articles 2007-07-05
- Revenue Per Employee In Small Business
- The article tells about the simple ratio of Revenue Per Employee. Revenue Per Employee is a key ratio for start-up companies. A low Revenue Per Employee in comparison to similar companies is a bad sign, often boding possible failure. Companies usually fail for one of two basic reasons. Either, the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Ancillary Revenue Is the New Black
- In the post deregulation era, most U.S. airlines have focused on cost reduction far more than revenue enhancement. While it's always important to keep costs in check, there is a world of untapped ancillary revenue potential -- if carriers can get passengers to buy in. Ancillary...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Earnings: WPP Revenue Slides But Digital Target On Track
- In the first half of 2009, advertising group WPP made one quarter of its revenue from its digital activities, showing that advertisers are investing in new online ways to track, measure and expose their brands in the recession. In an unaudited interim report covering the six months to June...
- External links 2009-08-26
- Dell Pleased with Q210 Revenue, Tightlipped About China Mobile Smartphone
- Dell announced that revenue, shipments, income, earnings and gross margins were all up from the previous quarter, and put an emphasis on its growing enterprise assets. About its Mini 3i smartphone for China Mobile it was less forthcoming.Analysts were optimistic about Dell?s second quarter fiscal year 2010 results, and indeed,...
- News items 2009-08-31
- PCTEL Posts $10.7 Million In Third Quarter Revenue; Wireless Revenue Up 190% Over Third Quarter Last Year
- CHICAGO -- PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCTI), a global leader in simplifying mobility, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2004. Total revenue was $10.7 million for the third quarter of 2004, including $9.3 million of wireless product revenue and $1.4 million of licensing revenue. This compares to...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Updated: Yahoo Revenue Drops 12 Percent
- Yahoo on Tuesday reported a profit jump of 30 percent in the third quarter, though its revenue dipped 12 percent. Net income was $186 million, up from $54 million during the same time period last year. Total revenue was $1.575 billion, down 12 percent from $1.786 billion in the third...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Accounting: Subtle Issues in Revenue Recognition
- In recent years, concerns related to the recognition of revenue in accordance with GAAP have risen in significance. Not only the fraudulent acts of recording revenue improperly through sham transactions, but subtler practices, such as recognizing revenue before it is earned, have drawn more intense regulatory scrutiny. GAAP for revenue...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- PCTEL Reports Record Wireless Revenue; Total Revenue Grows To $18.3 Million; 59 Percent Growth Over Same Quarter Last Year; Antenna Products Group Reaches $13.4 Million
- CHICAGO -- PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCTI), a global leader in simplifying broadband mobility, today announced financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2005. The company reported revenue of $18.3 million for the period, including $18.0 million of wireless revenue and $0.3 million of modem related licensing revenue. This compares with...
- Research articles 2005-07-28
- iPod Sales Only 14.2% of Apple's Q4 Total Revenue
- Andy Zaky submits: If someone were to tell investors two years ago that iPod sales would only contribute 14.2% of Apple’s AAPL total revenue and that Apple’s revenue would significantly accelerate to a shocking pace of 75% year-over-year, such an investor would probably guess that Apple’s stock price would be...
- External links 2008-10-27
- Yahoo Tops Estimates, But Revenue Continues To Fall
- The ad market’s woes continued to take their toll on Yahoo’s results, as the company reported its fourth consecutive quarter of declining revenue. Net revenue plummeted 15 percent. However, net income and earnings per share were both up, as the company continued to benefit from aggressive cost cutting. The...
- External links 2009-10-20
- Kraft Says Won't Overpay For Cadbury as Revenue Misses
- By Brad DorfmanCHICAGO (Reuters) - Kraft Foods Inc KFT said it would not overpay for British chocolatier Cadbury Plc CBRY on Tuesday after disappointing investors by posting weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue and cutting its full-year sales forecast.Investors in both companies had hoped strong quarterly results would bolster the value of Kraft's...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009, Report Says
- Research firm Gartner predicts a rosy outlook for software-as-a-service SaaS, which predicts revenues will top $7.5 billion worldwide in 2009. Worldwide software as a service SaaS revenue is forecast to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion, according to technology market research...
- News items 2009-11-10
- The Origin of Revenue Management
- Let's face it: revenue management is just a palatable way of saying "how to make the greatest possible amount of money," and even that's a little diplomatic. Revenue management, often called yield management, is the practice of dynamic pricing to help solve supply-allocation problems. And American Airlines was first to...
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
