Can you hear the screams? They are howls of anguish from investors, analysts and bankers at the very idea their beloved earnings number might disappear.
Net income, the bottom line - call it what you will, it's one number everyone knows, even if it is only as one half of the price/earnings ratio, the main gauge of corporate value used the world over. Just look at the tables in the back of the Financial Times - it's there.
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