Pretax earnings refer to a company's income after all expenses have been deducted from total sales, but before income taxes have been subtracted.

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Operating income and revenue both show the money a company makes. However, they have different ways of expressing a company’s earnings. Revenue is a company’s income from its regular business ...

The provision for income taxes on an income statement is the amount of income taxes a company estimates it will pay in a given year. The company's final tax bill may be slightly more or less than the ...