Accounting Glossary
EBIT, EBITDA and Net Profit Explained: Untangling the Alphabet Soup of Profit Metrics
EBIT, EBITDA and net profit are not competing answers to the same question — they are three different lenses on the same set of numbers. This article unpacks what each metric strips out, why lenders and buyers favour different ones, and how a single SME's figures can swing from a £150,000 headline to a £60,345 bottom line depending on which line you stop at.