Earnings and Loss Announcements

Who's Tops At The Bottom Line?

In terms of percentage gains in net income, the top performer among the INC. Second 100 is Gerber Scientific (No. 123), which engineered a 36,488% increas...  Read more

Income Statements

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Net Income

The net income of a company is its profit. The terminology is influenced by its source, which is the company's Income Statement. This statement shows Inco...  Read more

Your Financial Snapshot

Financial ratios can tell you how your company is doing financially, as well as tell you how you're doing as compared to competitors.  Read more

UNTITLED

What do Coca-Cola , Gillette and The Washington Post Co. have in common? For one thing, they all boast W...  Read more

Employment Costs Rising

Following sharper gains earlier this year, private-sector wages and salaries rose 0.8 percent in the second quarter, the Labor Department reported Tuesday...  Read more

Return on Assets (ROA)

Return on assets (ROA) is a financial ratio that shows the percentage of profit a company earns in relation to its overall resources. It is commonly defin...  Read more

Benefit Costs Drive Compensation Spending in Third Quarter

Oct. 31, 2006 -- Total compensation costs for civilian workers increased 1 percent in the third quarter of 2006, compared 0.9 percent ove...  Read more

Not So Fast

The mailbag also contained letters about the INC. 500, including a few from people who were, in one way or another, dismayed by the list. A company'...  Read more

Super Marketer

You state that A&P's above-average net income is due to closing of unprofitable stores. I believe that some further research will show that A&P's...  Read more

The Metrics

Net Profit Margin Net Pretax Profit ÷ Revenue The bottom line -- the amount you have left after every other expense is t...  Read more

Wired For Profit

A moment of sympathy, please, for the small investor. He is always the last to know what's going on -- and the least likely to profit from it. Consi...  Read more

Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA)

The Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA) of 1954 is a tax law that requires the owners of small businesses—such as S corporations, partnerships,...  Read more

Corrections

The 1985 INC. 100 listing (May) included an incorrect report of the 1984 net income for Genex (#80). The correct figure is a $7.4-million loss. In "...  Read more

Telecom's Golden In Russia

Jim Oberweis is the chef du jour in the sizzling small-cap kitchen. Here's a taste of what he is serving up to clients and subscribers.  Read more

Raising the Bar for Bonuses

Creating a bonus plan that motivates employees.  Read more

Complex Equations

In "The One-Minute Lender" (December 1984), Bruce Posner muses that some bankers have asked the authors of the H-score how to calculate cash flow. Pretty ...  Read more

Transferring an S Corp. to Your Kids

Grantor-retained annuity trusts let children of S corp owners pay less in estate or gift taxes on stock transfers.  Read more

Personal Income Rising

Following a slowdown earlier this year, U.S. income growth picked up over the third quarter, the government reports.  Read more

How to Cut Your Own Pay

How one CEO tailors his salary to his company's performance.  Read more

For The Graduate Who Has Everything

Gift ideas for high school graduates.  Read more

Online Sales Outpacing Brick-and-Mortar Retailers

Nov. 17, 2006 -- E-commerce sales rose by 3.4 percent in the third quarter to $25.6 billion, the Commerce Department reported today. ...  Read more

Inc.500 Firm Reports Growth for Tenth Straight Quarter

Nov. 3, 2006 -- Evault, an Emeryville, Calif-based data protection firm, today reported profitable growth for the tenth consecutive quart...  Read more

Memories Of De Lorean

It has been nearly a year since the British government closed the De Lorean Motor Co. plant in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, losing 2,600 jobs in the bargai...  Read more

Guaranteed attention

Pushing an invisible product with new colorful packaging.  Read more

Inc. 500 HR Firm Extends Growth to 36 Quarters

Dec. 7, 2006 -- Vurv, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based HR software firm, saw third-quarter revenue grow by 63 percent, extending its record of ...  Read more

High Concept: How to Spot an Enron

Two brothers predict that cash flow will eclipse earnings as the ultimate metric for sizing up a company's health.  Read more

Swiped Out

Credit cards are getting harder to find and more expensive to use.  Read more

Network: November 1991

Network resources.  Read more

Personal Income Growth Steady in Q3

Dec. 20, 2006 -- Personal income in the United States grew 1.4 percent in the third quarter of 2006, according to a release today from th...  Read more

Is the asking price right?

Buying a Business mentor Tom West responds to the following question from an inc.com user: My partner and I are looking to buy a...  Read more

Taking On The Network Giants

Digital Microsystems Inc. and Corvus Systems Inc,, both founded less than eight years ago and now successful pioneers in the microcomputer industry, have ...  Read more

Tax laws favor large businesses over small ones, a series of studies prepared for the Federal Trade Commission conclude. The present tax structure encoura...  Read more

Defining Key Financial Ratios

Corresponding to figures from your financial statements, ratios make relationships in your business more understandable. A ratio is only a shorthand note:...  Read more

The Stock Pickers' Ball

Experts pick their favorite Inc. 100 stocks and offer some investment advice.  Read more

NetSuite IPO Prices Surge

Following a shaky start, shares in the business software firm are trading up.  Read more

Fit to Be Sold

Getting your company's financial records in shape for prospective buyers.  Read more

The Man Who Never Wanted To Be President

Charles Muench has a formula for fast growth: Let other people run the company.  Read more

The Return of Martha Stewart

August 30, 2005 --After five months in prison, and another five months of home detention, Martha Stewart will resume working fulltime on W...  Read more

Small Businesses Increase Payrolls, Shrink Paychecks

July 13, 2004 -- A new small business employment survey is adding credence to the theory that, while the economy is adding jobs, the qual...  Read more