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Originally Posted by JNW1
I think you're missing his point though. What he's saying is it's common for businesses to have gross sales prices - and then offer rebates based on various metrics - and internally typically some sales reporting and discussions centre around those gross revenue figures pre-rebate. Of course for the purposes of the accounts what's shown is a net figure post-rebate but quite often it's the finance people who have to keep reminding their sales colleagues that their figures aren't quite as good as they like to make out!
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I think you're both missing the important part of that though. Report what you want internally. Boris and leave made a public declaration.
If a publicly listed company declared a financial position to the press and ignored half the facts it would be in big trouble. This is what Boris did, he didn't just say it to his colleagues, he declared it to the country.