1.   Break-even charts are useful for their indication of the effects of Marginal changes in sales volume or costs on profit figures.

2.   Profit figures become merely amounts which can be spent without impairing initial capital invested.

3.   You will see from the graphs below that our turnover and pre-tax profit figures reached record levels last year.

4.   Analysts said investors will be more concerned about what Tesco has to say about trading so far this year and future strategy than the profit figures.

5.   Analysts suggest caution when interpreting profit figures for the Belgian banks.

6.   As time went on, companies began emphasizing profit figures that excluded some expenses, such as income before extraordinary items or operating income.

7.   Backman would not release profit figures for his company, but nationwide the industry makes millions of dollars each year, specialists say.

8.   BMW provided no profit figures for Rover.

9.   A spokesman declined to release a net profit figure for Lufthansa.

10.   But since then the profit figures have been plunging precipitously.