Terms and figures
What the numbers in a Norwegian annual filing mean, and what a company's identifiers are. Each entry also says where we read the figure from.
Financial figures
Revenue
What a company earned from its ordinary trading over the financial year — before any costs are deducted.
Net profit
What is left once every cost, income tax included, has been taken out of revenue.
Total assets
Everything the company owns at the balance sheet date, as one figure.
Equity
Assets minus liabilities — the part of the company that genuinely belongs to its owners.
Liabilities
Everything the company owes to others, current and non-current together.
Current assets
What the company owns that is meant to turn into money within a year.
Cash and bank
The money the company actually held on the balance sheet date.
Operating profit
What the business itself earned, before finance items and tax.
Profit before tax
The result after finance items, but before tax has been taken out.
Income tax
The tax on the year's profit, as carried in the accounts.