Corporate Profits

Summary

Corporate profits represents the portion of the total income earned from current production that is accounted for by U.S. corporations. The estimates of corporate profits are an integral part of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), a set of accounts prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) that provides a logical and consistent framework for presenting statistics on U.S. economic activity. The BEA uses QFR data as a primary source for current estimates of corporate profits, taxes, and dividends for the quarterly estimates of the Gross Domestic Income, a component of the NIPA.

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