Perhaps the most humiliating portion of the treaty for the defeated Germany was Article 231, commonly known as the War Guilt Clause, which forced Germany to accept complete responsibility for initiating World War I.
For a company, net income is the residual amount of earnings after all expenses have been deducted from sales. In short, gross income is an intermediate earnings figure before all expenses are included, and net income is the final amount of profit or loss after all expenses are included. For example, a business has sales of $1,000,000, cost of goods sold of $600,000, and selling expenses of $250,000.
Gross vs. Net Income. In accounting, gross profit, gross income, or gross operating profit all refers to the difference between revenue and the expense of providing a service or manufacturing a product, prior to deducting overheads, payroll costs, taxes, and payments on interest.