Profit-and-loss
noun
1.
the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
profit and loss
noun
1.
(accounting) an account compiled at the end of a financial year showing that year’s revenue and expense items and indicating gross and net profit or loss
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