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Accounting Earnings

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Accounting earnings
Earnings of a firm as reported on its income statement.

Accounting Earnings
A company's earnings as reported on its annual report or other statement. It may be calculated by any method approved in the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.


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"There is no one answer to accounting earnings or (tax) returns," said Kenneth Merchant, the Deloitte & Touche chair in accounting at USC.
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