Income Statement (Profit and Loss)

Please read the disclaimer first.

The Income Statement, a.k.a. the Profit and Loss Report, is a financial statement that represents your financial activities during the period.

It is broadly sectioned into three parts.

Revenues are stuff that brought value into your account, such as sales.

Expenses are stuff that took value out of your account, such as procurement.

The difference is your Net profit (or loss).

These may be further divided to calculate Gross profit, Operational profit, Before tax profit, and After tax profit.

For gross profit, take the gross revenue and subtract the cost of sales.

For operational profit, further subtract other expenses that pertain to running your business, like administrative costs.

For before tax profit, factor in revenue and expenses that is not directly tied to your business, like investments.

For after tax profit, factor in taxes.

Here's an over-simplified version of our income statement for April 2015.

I wasn't sure how to categorize for a personal income statement, so I

1. Put in my salary in gross revenue, and stuff we need to live in cost of sales.
2. Put education and play spending in operational expenses.
3. Put IRA matching and investments in non-operational revenue and expenses.

We were in the red last month, mostly because of property taxes.