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Profits Explained by the Financial Times

Geoff Riley

23rd February 2016

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Jonathan Guthrie from the Financial Times explains how companies calculate their profit, what investors should be wary of and the different measures used to gauge how a business is really performing.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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