Business incentives

Usage examples of profits.

Then, that December, Mastroeni and Borget entered into trades that gave profits to the competitors and losses to Enron.

The plan was to reverse the trades in 1987, with Enron gaining the profits and the three others getting the losses.

Enron would report all of its 1986 profits in that year and pay the taxes.

And then-even if those profits came from fancy accounting--Jeff Skilling would be one very rich man.

They needed the profits they would gain from collapsing the estimated lifetime revenues of their gas contracts into a single year.

She pointed out that with profits of each contract reported the first year, Enron needed to sign up increasing numbers of contracts each year to keep growing.

At that point the fuels group was making profits the old-fashioned way: it made stuff and sold it at a profit.

But if Enron could switch the accounting, big profits from the contracts could be booked right away.

Recently, one analyst had completed a report proving the obvious: because of the amount of profits from trading-which in turn relied on the willingness of others to strike multimillion-dollar transactions on the promise of payment-Enron was uniquely dependent on its credit rating, meaning a downgrade could set off a death spiral.

I mean, how exactly do you make the profits in the profit projections?

But then the commercial guys pulled in the profits and the glory-benefits that would never have happened without the behind-the-scenes work of the finance group.

But equity from an independent investor meant the profits would have to be divvied up.

Kopper, who obtained it from his profits in RADR, the illegal wind deal.

But executives knew expensing options meant lower profits, possibly jeopardizing the carefully constructed gravy train.

He had noticed one of the games pumping up the numbers: the sale of seven percent of retail had created sixty-one million dollars in profits over three years.