CORPORATE PROFITS DISTRIBUTION: Corporate profits are the excess revenue received by corporations over their accounting costs of production. Total corporate profits are distributed in three basic ways. One portion is used to pay corporate profits taxes. A second is undistributed corporate profits retained by corporations to finance capital investment. And a third is then paid out as dividends to shareholders, or corporate owners.

     See also | corporate profits | accounting cost | accounting profit | corporate profits tax | undistributed corporate profits | dividend | corporate stock |

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In terms of the microeconomic analysis of production and supply, a period of time in which all inputs under the control of a firm used in the production process are variable. In the long run, labor and capital are variable inputs. The long-run analysis of production reveals the key role played by returns to scale. This is one of four production time periods used in the study of microeconomics. The other three are short run, very long run, and very short run (or market period). The long run is also a time period designation used in the macroeconomic analysis of economic growth and full employment.

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