Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.
Quotes about pretax (11 Quotes)
Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.
Businesses are realizing that an effective loss-prevention program can become a competitive advantage. If a company has a pretax profit rate of 4 percent and cuts shrinkage in half from 2 percent to 1 percent, that represents an increase in profitability of 20 percent.
Flexible spending accounts are an important vehicle to help workers and their families save pretax dollars for medical expenses.
A tax-managed fund is simply a fund who's goal it is to maximize after-tax returns, whereas most funds are focused on pretax returns, ... I think the one thing that probably all of them have is the idea of selling losers to offset gains. If you've just realized profits on one stock you'll sell a few dogs.
A crucial point is that Japanese carmakers would still be in good shape even if the Armada and the Sequoia weren't selling, because they have competitive models in every segment. For American automakers, big SUVs are leading the way to closed plants and layoffs. With the Expedition and the Excursion out front, Ford started talking about both things August 16. In the second quarter of 2005, Ford is poised for a pretax loss of 1.21 billion. The challenge we face isn't a traditional economic downturn, ... It's a new, rapidly evolving, brutally competitive global marketplace.
They have to make a judgment. The more your employer is putting in pretax the more you should switch to Roth.
Surprisingly, the main driver of the upside in the quarter was Ford's automotive operations, which posted a pretax loss of 12 million, much better than our forecast for a loss of 910 million. Within automotive, North America accounted for the majority of the upside.
If you could invest in a tax-deferred account such as an IRA or 401(k), the pretax rate of return would be equal to or greater than the post-tax cost of the mortgage.
The impact of the change in bankruptcy laws and changes in our practices for overdraft charge-offs and over-limit credit card fees reduced pretax results by about 320 million. In addition, we had a weak trading quarter that was well under our performance in recent quarters. The bankruptcy issue will not recur and should actually benefit us going forward as we expect a reduced level of bankruptcy filings under the new law.
We estimate that after losing 4 billion pretax in 2005 and 28 billion over the past five years, the U.S. passenger airlines could approach break-even in 2006.