But that has all changed. Venice is now more than just a beach town, more than just a tourist attraction. Venice is a brand. Or as Ernest, a man I met outside the Oakwood Community Center (he smoked a hand-rolled cigarette and declined to give me his last name), puts it: This used to be a community.
The retained earnings general ledger account is adjusted every time a journal entry is made to a revenue or expense account. Retained Earnings. Retained earnings are reported at the end of an accounting period as the accumulated amount of a company's prior earnings, net of dividends. They can show a positive earnings accumulation or can turn negative and have a deficit if a current period's net loss exceeds the period's beginning retained earnings.
Q&A. Generally, retained earnings is a corporation's cumulative earnings since the corporation was formed minus the dividends it has declared since it began. In other words, retained earnings represents the corporation's cumulative earnings that have not been distributed to its stockholders. The amount of retained earnings as of a balance sheet's date is reported as a separate line item in the stockholders' equity section of the balance sheet. A negative amount of retained earnings is reported as deficit or accumulated deficit.