On 14/11/2011 8:12 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> but I have never, ever heard anybody say the words "profit center".
> Perhaps it's just because people don't argue about it quite so much?

In my line of business cost centres will incur costs and pass them onto 
profit centres sometimes indirectly. For instance a Maintenance 
department will buy spare parts and use man-hours which will be charged 
to a production cost centre. Which in turn will buy raw and or 
semi-finished products, convert these into finished products and charge 
the sum to a profit centre which will sell the finished products. The 
total profit or loss of the controlling area will be the aggregate of 
these monies after settlement.

And as Jim said every intelligent person uses a dictionary and often a 
thesaurus.



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Regards
     Stephen

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