# Profit

Concept · [Business and metrics](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/business)

Also called: net income, bottom line, earnings, profitable, revenue vs profit

What is left of your [revenue](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/revenue) after every cost is paid.

**For example:** [Revenue](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/revenue) is 1,000 dollars and total costs are 800 dollars. Profit is 200 dollars.

## Connects to (9)

- [Revenue](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/revenue): All the money customers pay your business, before any costs are taken out.
- [Gross margin](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gross-margin): The part of each sale you keep after paying the direct cost of making and delivering what you sold.
- [Break-even](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/break-even): The point where the money coming in equals the money going out, so the business is no longer losing money.
- [Burn rate](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/burn-rate): How fast your company is using up its cash, usually counted per month.
- [Default alive](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/default-alive): A phrase from investor Paul Graham.
- [S-corp](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/s-corp): A corporation that has chosen a US tax status in which profits and losses pass through to the owners' own tax returns.
- [Cash flow](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cash-flow): The timing of money coming into and going out of a business.
- [EBITDA](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ebitda): Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
- [QuickBooks](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/quickbooks): Accounting software from Intuit for small businesses, used for bookkeeping, invoices, expenses and financial reports.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/profit