business losses
Red ink amounts
Business losses are financial deficits incurred when a company's expenses exceed its revenue.
The term appears frequently in tax contexts, where business losses can offset other income: She used her business losses to reduce her tax liability.
Losses may stem from operating costs, failed investments, depreciation, or market downturns.
In casual use, claiming business losses sometimes implies creative accounting.
- economic recessionSustained decline in output
- lawsuitsLegal proceedings seeking remedy
- debtMoney owed another
- in the redFinancially in deficit
- overstaffingSurplus of workers
insolvency · fire sale · equipment failure · write-offs · product recalls · bankruptcy · red ink · overexpansion · hostile takeover · mismanagement · deficit · bad debts · sunk costs · labor strikes · liquidity crisis · trade restrictions · cyberattacks · natural disasters
- lawsuit damageslost wages, lost income, lost profits, medical bills, property damage
- tax lossestax write-off
- partnership termsgeneral partner, profit sharing, joint venture, partnership agreement, equal partners
- condemnationcondemnation, censure, rebuke, denunciation, reproach
- damagescompensatory, punitive, punitive damages, nominal, actual
business lossesprofits
Financial surplus after costs
business profits · gains · earnings · net income · surplus
business lossescommercial success
Profitable market performance
growth · prosperity · flourishing · thriving · expansion
business, businesses, busily, busyness, loss, losses, lose, loses, losing