Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Gross income is the total of all income you receive before taxes. It’s also called pre-tax income. Net income is your income after taxes (or take-home pay). Your gross income figure will always be ...

Brian Beers is a digital editor, writer, Emmy-nominated producer, and content expert with 15+ years of experience writing about corporate finance & accounting, fundamental analysis, and investing.

Ordinarily, I have used gross rather than net capital expenditures in my free cash flow calculations. Recently, an article made me rethink my choice of CapEx figures. Here I explain why, perhaps, net ...