What is the meaning of Book Profits?
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Some money managing institutions(like banks)have profits only on books,but not convertible to liquid cash for customers.For example a bank Lends U S $5000k but as a security for the loan keeps immovable property worth  U S $6000K, but not available for immediate liquidity.Thus the bank has a profit of   U S $1000K that is of no use but technically is having a profit.Such assets are also called NON PERFORMING ASSETS.
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It stands for profit & loss.  Think of it as a balance sheet for a business.  They enter their profits as pluses and their outlays (whatever they need for the business, such as rent, electricity, phones, inventory, etc) as minuses.  Then they either show a profit if their number comes up positive or a loss if it comes up negative.
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The book to market value ratio is used to find the value of a company by comparing the book value of a firm (calculated by looking at the firm's historical cost, or accounting value) to its market value (determined in the stock market through its market capitalization).  The book to market value ratio attempts to identify undervalued or overvalued stocks.  If the ratio is above one, then the stock is undervalued.  If it is less than one, then the stock is overvalued.
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Here's a decent look at the money side from the publisher's point of view.\n\nhttp://alg.livejournal.com/84032.html
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Depends on the context in which you use it...\n\nGenerally it means:\n\nAn amount or level needed for a specific result or new action to occur:\n\nIn investing it means:\n\nThe size at which a business or market undergoes a fundamental change in regard to operations. An example of such a change is a company's achievement of increasing returns to scale. \n\nIn Physics\n\nThe smallest mass of a fissionable material that will sustain a nuclear chain reaction at a constant level. \n\nor\n\nThe amount of matter needed to generate sufficient gravitational force to halt the current expansion of the universe.
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Depends what kind of "profit"
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Gross income is what you earned pre-tax either from your job, stock dividends, or bond interest.\n\nGross profit is what you get after you sell something (proceeds) minus the cost of the object.
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Well, something is wrong.  \n\nIn accounting, when you debit something, you also credit something else. \n\nThis means one of a few things:\n\n1) The book is wrong, which is unlikely but not unheard of as there is always errata in every publication.\n\n2) There are some assumptions that you did not record.  For example, you made a profit and need to carry over the retained earnings to owners equity. This is probably the most likely thing as problems generally try to test your comprehension and ability to reason. \n\n3) You overlooked something.
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If a person is doing Bookeeping they are a bookeeper, if they are doing Accounting they are an accountant.\n\nA Bookeeper performs a Bookeeping cycle I guess you could say eg: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable etc.  The full Bookeeper is someone who can do it all - compiling data into the General Ledger and preparing Financial statements.\n\nAn Accountant is someone who sets up the bookeeping system, monitors it and interpret the results. Maybe you could say they oversee the bookeeper.\n\nI am not an Accountant nor Bookeeper we have our own business and we have both an accountant and a Bookeeper and this is what they do for us.  Hope this helps.
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Cooking the books and massaging the numbers are terms you'll hear often in accounting. Accounting is the record keeping of transactions made. This has large effects on a company's earnings report, financial statement, income statement, cash flows and the like. Cooking the books means that you literally alter these numbers to say what you want them to say. Massaging the numbers generally refers to a practice of lightly altering the numbers. Although still an alteration, the latter is much more accepted. \n\nHere's an example.\n\nWhat's 2+2.\n\nA by the book but probably out of work accountant would answer 4.\n\nSomeone massaging the numbers would say sometimes 3 and sometimes 5 but also sometimes 4. \n\nCooking the books would be someone who replies: "whatever you want it to be."
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the only way you can do that legally is if your paying taxes and royalties on it, if not then no. Just because you own a copy of a book, does not give you the right to make profit, without paying the author, it is and always will be his/her book.\nI published one book under a fake name and work as an agent for my grandmother who is just now signed with a publisher and trust me, if i caught someone doing that with my book i wouldnt be happy. Libraries that charge an annual fee have to pay the authories in their library a percentage of profit made from the book if it went out, and no matter what pay taxes.\nThe only way that it is legal is to charge a late fee, and that is serperate from royalites but even thats taxed. Late fees are slippery slope unto themselves. If it is not set in stone what is late and the borrower doesnt know that rule they cant legally be charged.
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I think cost of goods sold is = beginning inventory + purchases - ending inventory.\n\nThen, gross profit is = sales - cost of goods sold.\n\nThen, net profit is = gross profit - operating expenses.
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Because companies were editing their accounting books to make them look like they were more profitable than they were. This was to please stock holders. Several major companies such as MCI and Enron were doing this.  Billions and billions of dollars in the companies that were editing their books were artifical.  Enron, itself, was losing billions of dollars, but their books said they were making billions of dollars.  The stock holders were buying when they should have been selling.
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this means you will make money off whatever you are selling to another. You will "profit" or gain something.
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The blurb is the summary of what the book is about.  It's usually on the back of paperbacks, and on the jacket of hardbacks.
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What you got out of the book you read
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It is a statistical information that helps the buyer to know about the book without actually holding it. Number of pages, Weight, Dimensions etc. are all the physical specs of a book. It also helps in deciding the shipping amount.