Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2A01:CB00:51C:F800:5901:3AF8:1B28:CBBA-20180331081353/@comment-32545704-20180402194703

Alright, I was only teasing!

You're talking about two different pieces of information. Including all incomings and outgoings gives you something akin to operating profit, that's fine and still useful to know. But if a company wants to start a new project, it needs to known the financial implications of that project in isolation. It's no good looking at the company's gross profit, the company might make lots of money but if the new project is not profitable they won't do it!

The only difference here is that we don't expect any "project" to actually be profitable in GC, but to decide whether to engage in the project, the net costs in isolation are far more useful as a comparison between doing it or not doing it.