Gewinnabführung

German

Etymology

Gewinn (profit) +‎ Abführung (transfer, removal, discharge)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡəˈvɪnˌapfyːʁʊŋ]
  • Hyphenation: Ge‧winn‧ab‧füh‧rung

Noun

Gewinnabführung f (genitive Gewinnabführung, plural Gewinnabführungen)

  1. (finance, corporate law) profit transfer, profit surrender (the act of a subsidiary transferring its annual earnings to a parent company)
    Die Gewinnabführung an die Muttergesellschaft verringert das bilanzielle Eigenkapital der Tochter.
    The profit transfer to the parent company reduces the subsidiary's balance sheet equity.
  2. (taxation) remittance of profits (the technical process of moving taxable income within a fiscal unity)

Declension

Antonyms

  • Verlustübernahme (assumption of losses)
  • Thesaurierung (retention of profits)
  • Gewinnabführungsvertrag
  • Abführungsbetrag
  • Gewinnverwendung (appropriation of profit)