The function will return 500, disregarding the negative sign. This can be particularly useful when you only want to see the total change in profit while ignoring any losses.

Speak with confidence at your next financial meeting by calculating your gross profit with Microsoft Excel. Excel provides several built-in functions and operators to calculate total cost, revenue ...

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 27, No. 1 (July 2002), pp. 94-113 (20 pages) The relationships among cost functions, distance functions, and technical inefficiency are utilized to ...

Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Kaukab Hassan Naqvi, Munir Ahmad, Estimates of Farm Output Supply and Input Demand Elasticities: The Translog Profit Function Approach [with Comments], The ...