carryforward

Amount moved ahead

Carryforward is an accounting term for an amount transferred from one period to a future one.

A tax carryforward lets you apply unused deductions or losses to reduce taxable income in later years: The company used its carryforward to offset this year's profits.

Also spelled as two words or hyphenated.

The opposite is carryback.

accounting

carryover

Amount brought forward

tax · deficit · offset · carryback · provision · balance · adjustment · allocation · accrual · deferral

continuation

extension

Added part or duration

persistence · maintenance · preservation · sustainment · follow-up · sequel · proceeding · advancement · furtherance · endurance

progress

momentum

Product of mass, velocity

headway · improvement · accumulation · increment · stride · evolution · maturation · innovation · transformation · upswing

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temporal direction

carryforwardcarryback

Applying losses backwards

carryover · lookback

Family

carry, forward, carrying, carried, carriage, forwards, carries, forwarded, foreword

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