損益

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 損益 is a noun read そんえき, meaning profit and loss considered together as a financial result.
• Basic usage: Use 店の損益を表にまとめる for putting a shop's profit and loss into a table and 月ごとの損益を比較する for comparing it month by month.
  • 授業で架空の店の損益を表にまとめました。 describes tabulating the profit and loss of a fictional shop in class; 月ごとの損益を比較すると、費用の変化がよく分かります。 says that comparing monthly profit and loss makes changes in expenses easy to see.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 損益をまとめる
  • を marks profit and loss as the information organized into a table.
• 月ごとの損益
  • ごと divides the comparison into monthly units.
• 損益 and 費用
  • 損益 is the overall profit-and-loss result, while 費用 is an expense that contributes to that result.