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Caterpillar Reports Best Third-Quarter Sales and Profit Yet Downgrades Outlook for Future Sales

Construction Business Owner

announced third-quarter 2012 sales and revenues of $16.445 billion, a 5-percent increase from third-quarter 2011 sales and revenues of $15.716 billion. Profit per share for the third quarter of 2012 was $2.54, up 49 percent from $1.71 per share in the third quarter of 2011. 22, 2012) — Caterpillar Inc.

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Where are we headin’ in 2011?

Constructonomics

My theme song for 2011 is gonna be that ’70’s disco song by the Bee-Gee’s. I read all those statistics on construction starts and stuff like that, and while they do predict a modest uptick for 2011, it will be far from a gangbuster flood of money into our pockets. . Oh, if only it were 1977 again. We’d be enjoying 6.5%

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Construction Business Owner Attends APWA 2011 Congress » Section 179, and what YOU need to know about it. While the circumstances may change for each unique situation, I can share a few basic facts about Section 179: 2011 Deduction Limit – $500,000 (up from $250k previously). December 2011. November 2011.

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A Glimpse of Wall Street – 2011

Constructonomics

As a result, the ecomomy collapsed, millions lost their jobs, and the people who were responsible not only got off scott free, but profitted from the whole thing. And they did it by using tricks and schemes that walked along the ethical line. It’s a travesty. Did you know that the pricetag on this is $3.1 million (I mean billion)?

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Caterpillar Profit Falls 55% in Fourth Quarter 2012

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar 4Q profit fell 55 percent as a result of charges resulting from the accounting problems in it Chinese subsidiary, as well as slow sales because of high dealer inventories. billion from 2011, garnering a profit of $0.7 Fourth-quarter sales and revenue were $16.1 billion, down $1.2 billion versus $1.4 billion in 2012.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Querying different type of jobs in job costing to look at profitability by type. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Preparing Sales & Use tax reports for sales tax authorities.

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Construction Business Owner

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 12:10 pm and is filed under Fred Ode Blog. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Stay Foolish. August 2012. April 2012. March 2012.