Capital Market Chronicles – Episode 116 : Key Components of the Income Statement
💰 1. Revenues/Sales – “The Grand Entry”
This is the total money earned from selling products or services. It's the company’s top line—and where all the action begins.
Think of it as your paycheck before taxes, coffee runs, and weekend splurges.
🛒 For a bakery, this is the money from all the croissants and cupcakes sold.
More revenue = happy investors.
No revenue = panic room.
🧾 2. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) – “The Price of Productivity”
This is what it costs to make or acquire what you sell.
For a company selling shoes, it includes materials, labour, and packaging—everything that physically goes into creating the product.
👟 For a shoemaker, it’s leather, laces, and that poor soul gluing soles in the backroom.
📌 Note: Service companies usually skip this because they sell expertise, not widgets.
📉 3. Gross Profit – “What’s Left After the Messy Part”
Revenue minus COGS = Gross Profit
It shows how efficiently the company produces or sources its goods.
🍕 Think: you sold a pizza for ₹500 and spent ₹200 on ingredients. ₹300 is your gross profit—before rent, gas bills, and the chef’s temper tantrum.
📊 High gross profit? Good product margins. Low? Time to question your business model—or your mozzarella supplier.
💡 4. Operating Expenses – “The Unavoidable Costs of Keeping the Show Running”
These include all those non-product costs that help you operate daily:
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Salaries (for humans)
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Rent (for roofs)
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Electricity, marketing, legal fees (for everything else)
They may not be glamorous, but they keep the lights on—literally.
🪙 This is where cost-cutting battles are fought and fancy coffee budgets are slashed.
💼 5. Operating Profit (EBIT) – “The Core Performance Rating”
EBIT = Gross Profit – Operating Expenses
This is the profit from the main business before financial and tax matters join the party.
It’s like your personal savings before your loan EMIs and income tax deductions hit.
🎯 Investors love EBIT—it tells them how the business performs without financial noise.
🎲 6. Non-Operating Income/Expenses – “The Random Plot Twists”
This covers all the financial curveballs:
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💵 Interest earned from idle cash
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📉 Losses from a failed side-hustle
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🏗️ Profit from selling your old office chairs
Basically, if it’s not from your core business, it lands here.
⚠️ Can add sparkle—or cause a shocker.
🧮 7. Net Profit – “The Final Verdict”
The last line. The Big Kahuna.
After every expense, tax, loss, and win, what’s left is net profit.
This is the amount available for:
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Dividends to shareholders
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Future investments
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Emergency ice cream
💸 This is what investors care about—because it determines growth potential, shareholder returns, and executive bonuses.
🔍 So, Why It Matters?
The Income Statement helps answer questions like:
✅ Is the company making money from what it does best?
✅ Are operating costs out of control?
✅ Can it withstand surprises (like sudden tariffs or expensive lawsuits)?
It’s not just a report. It’s the company’s story—with numbers. 📖💰
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