Talk:Net (economics)

after what deductions? material costs, advertizing, employee wage, tax, insurance?

do /all/ deductions count? or, is it context-sensitive? if someone gets '10% of the net' and the net is 200, then is the net 200 (because that 10% deduction doesn't get counted in the 'after deductions' sence) or is the net 180 (after the 10% deduction), e.g. with 'net' meaning after one bunch of deductions to some people, and after another bunch of deductions to other people?

if we assume that a firm ONLY makes films, could it be the case that the sum of the net profit of all of the films != the firms net profit (maybe a film's gross - production - advertizing = net; but the companies net = sum of all films' net - shared staffing budget - insurance - R&D)...?

can someone please clarify in article ta --Arkelweis (talk) 00:05, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nett is an alternative spelling used in British English. Is it? Never seen it spelt this way before. Can we get a reference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.125.159 (talk) 20:32, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, nett is a British word. I had no idea what nett meant, so I came to Wikipedia to find out. I'm still not entirely sure if this is the final price I pay, or if I need to add taxes and tips to it. If I have a 10% discount card does that apply to the Nett price? I've only seen this word (nett) used by British companies in retail advertising and my British friends only use the word nett. In America there is no word "nett". There is a word "net". This Wikipedia article implies they have the same meaning, but I don't think they do. This article absolutely needs a LINGUIST to provide some solid answers to this very confusing situation. N0w8st8s (talk) 09:39, 2 August 2013 (UTC)n0w8st8s[reply]