1.   The interest paid to debenture holders is deductible when calculating taxable profits, unlike dividend payments.

2.   And the strong dollar is hurting them, since they calculate foreign profits in U.S. currency.

3.   But Ali and his friends probably should not calculate their profits before the opium is sold.

4.   But Energy Services calculated its profits in a very different way.

5.   Clark, the controller, said the company never thought to calculate profits generated by Enron.

6.   Furthermore, Enron had adopted a turbocharged way of calculating its profits that intensified the pressure to make new deals.

7.   Instead of first figuring out their sales and subtracting expenses to calculate the profit, such companies work backward.

8.   Life fund profits are calculated yearly, at the end of the year.

9.   Only the number of partners paid entirely out of profits is used to calculate profits per partner, the lawyer said.