Thus, for profitable firms, debt is discounted by the tax rate.

I want Kidder to be one of the most profitable firms in the industry, not necessarily the largest.

In the first half of the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 6 of the 10 most- profitable firms here were foreign.

Those profitable firms earned a combined pretax profit of $927 million.

For the most profitable firms, the raises may do little other than cut the partners' annual pay by a hundred thousand dollars or so.

He had happily run the profitable firm since 1983 without the attendant pressure and headaches of public ownership.

The least profitable firms were those with moderate market share.

"A once profitable firm destroyed itself through poor management decisions and overextended."

With the more profitable firms the differential between the main companies rate and the individual higher rate is only 7%.

Being a profitable reseller firm usually involves extensive advertising to get customers.