Profit 100
Hildegard Lobach
In a capitalist system where firms compete with one another to sell their goods, the question of where profits come from has been one of interest among economists. Karl Marx, for instance, argued that profits arise from surplus labor extracted from workers by business owners. Modern thinkers suggest that profits compensate for the risk that entrepreneurs take on when starting a business. Others argue that profits arise from inefficient markets and imperfect competition.
The bottom line tells a company how profitable it was during a period and how much it has available for dividends and retained earnings. What's retained can be used to pay off debts, fund projects, or reinvest in the company. An increasing bottom line is a sign that a company is growing, while a shrinking bottom line could be a red flag.
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Profit, in accounting, is an income distributed to the owner in a profitable market production process (business). Profit is a measure of profitability which is the owner's major interest in the income-formation process of market production. There are several profit measures in common use.
Income formation in market production is always a balance between income generation and income distribution. The income generated is always distributed to the stakeholders of production as economic value within the review period. The profit is the share of income formation the owner is able to keep to themselves in the income distribution process. Profit is one of the major sources of economic well-being because it means incomes and opportunities to develop production. The words "income", "profit" and "earnings" are synonyms in this context.
Non-profit corporations are formed in the same fashion as business corporations. Forms for the incorporation of non-profit entities can be found at the bottom of this page. Non-profit corporations have certain specific obligations and duties. A general list of the duties and responsibilities of a Mississippi non-profit corporation can be found in the link to the right.
The purpose of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing is to study the various models that have emerged and will emerge of employee ownership shares and profit shares in the corporation and society of the United States and around the world. The Institute will study approaches that broaden financial participation and inclusion in the economy and business organizations, and allow employees to be fully engaged and share the rewards of their work.
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On July 18, 2024, the Institute with its New Jersey/New York Center for Employee Ownership announced that it will lead educational programming and outreach for the New Jersey statewide Employee Ownership Program in a partnership with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA). Read more.
The Institute encourages the work of scholars through the J. Robert Beyster Professorship and a national competitive Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program includes both senior scholars and recognized experts as Faculty Fellows and Mentors, Executive Fellows, and Senior Fellows. View a directory of all Institute Fellows since 2008.
The Institute develops and disseminates educational materials to encourage graduate and undergraduate education at Rutgers and other colleges through the Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership.
The Institute has a NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership that provides technical assistance, executive, professional, and employee education to businesses and individuals exploring employee share ownership. It is affiliated with the non-profit National Center for Employee Ownership. The Institute with its New Jersey/New York Center for Employee Ownership leads educational programming and outreach for the New Jersey statewide Employee Ownership Program in a partnership with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA).
The institute conducts research on employee ownership. It has recently launched the National ESOP Employee Survey Project that will build a database of about 10,000 employee surveys of ESOP workers in 10-20 companies across the country. ESOP firms of all sizes and industries are invited to participate, and in return will receive an individual report on their company at no cost.
The Institute sponsors a Working Paper Series that is designed to offer new research by Fellows and Guest Scholars at the Institute. These are circulated for discussion and comment on a more timely basis than the review process of typical academic journals. The papers have not undergone a peer review although they have been presented in conferences for initial comment by scholars.
The free course explores what the research shows about how employee ownership can share wealth and profits with employees while making businesses more productive. Students also hear from the founders of two employee-owned companies, who explain why they made their companies employee-owned and the steps involved in the process.
The Institute's programs are supported by major grants from the J. Robert Beyster Endowment at Rutgers, Mary Ann Beyster and the Beyster Foundation for Enterprise Development, the Employee Ownership Foundation, the Joseph Cabral Endowment, Carta.com, Citi Community Development, Elias Foundation, Google.org, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, John Menke of Menke and Associates, the Open Society Foundations, the Abby Rockefeller Endowment, and Wawa Inc.
The original research project that became the basis for the establishment of the Institute's research program, the Shared Capitalism Research Project, was funded jointly by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. This research is the subject of the book, Shared Capitalism at Work (Cambridge and Chicago: University of Chicago Press and National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011).
CLEO is the largest global online library on employee ownership and includes more than 700 materials (e.g. videos, cases, syllabi, teaching modules, and reading collections) on a broad range of topics on employee ownership.
What does it mean to have employee share ownership? In the documentary film We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream, employee owners from New Belgium Brewing, Namast Solar and DPR Construction answer this important question.
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The way we generate and use electricity is changing fast. The transition in how we generate electricity is being driven in large part by the growing share of increasingly cheap renewable energy. Compared to twenty years ago, the U.S. generates 66 times more wind energy and 144 times more solar energy.
In some states, utilities own and operate power plants too, but in Illinois power plants are required to be owned by different companies from the poles and wires that bring electricity to your house (although power plant owners and utilities in some cases are both subsidiaries of the same company, as is the case with ComEd and Exelon).
On the other hand, the only way utilities make profits is by spending money on physical infrastructure (e.g., poles and wires). The law says they should spend the least they can while providing quality, environmentally safe service, but when it comes to their bottom line, utilities are incentivized to make more costly investments. The more they spend on physical infrastructure, the more profit they stand to make.
This approach to regulation gives utilities a perverse incentive to build bigger and more expensive things, even when cleaner and more affordable solutions like energy efficiency are available. It will be hard to persuade utilities to pursue cleaner and more affordable grid investments as long as our system of regulation is nudging them in the other direction.
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