The CEO Podcast with Ryan Conlan.
Apr 7, 2026 · 24 min · 11 segments
Ryan Conlan breaks down the concept of revenue, its importance in business, and practical strategies to increase it. He covers revenue formulas, real-world examples from companies like Apple, Amazon…
Ryan ConlanHost
Quote revenue end quote is a basic but important concept in business and finance.
What is revenue? Revenue is the total amount of money a business earns from its normal operations, usually from selling goods or services.
Example, if a company sells 100 products at $20 each, revenue equals 100 multiplied by 20 equals $2,000.
Key points, it's often called quote top line end quote because it appears at the top of an income statement.
revenue is before expenses like salaries rent etc it's different from profit revenue equals money earned profit equals money left after costs types of revenue operating revenue from core business activities eg selling products non-operating revenue from other sources eg interest investments Let's make it concrete by looking at a real company and how revenue appears in its financials.
On Apple's income statement, revenue is the very first line, the quote, top line, end quote.
Simplified income statement, example, item revenue, net sales, amount of this being USD, United States dollars.
$383 billion cost of goods sold, $214 billion gross profit, $169 billion operating expenses, $55 billion operating income, $114 billion net income profit is approximately $97 billion.
quick analogy think of a coffee shop revenue equals all money from selling coffee profit equals what's left after paying rent staff beans etc and let's just take a simple realistic small business example so you can see exactly how revenue works step by step Example, small coffee shop.
Quote revenue end quote is a basic but important concept in business and finance.
What is revenue? Revenue is the total amount of money a business earns from its normal operations, usually from selling goods or services.
Example, if a company sells 100 products at $20 each, revenue equals 100 multiplied by 20 equals $2,000.
Key points, it's often called quote top line end quote because it appears at the top of an income statement.
revenue is before expenses like salaries rent etc it's different from profit revenue equals money earned profit equals money left after costs types of revenue operating revenue from core business activities eg selling products non-operating revenue from other sources eg interest investments Let's make it concrete by looking at a real company and how revenue appears in its financials.
On Apple's income statement, revenue is the very first line, the quote, top line, end quote.
Simplified income statement, example, item revenue, net sales, amount of this being USD, United States dollars.
$383 billion cost of goods sold, $214 billion gross profit, $169 billion operating expenses, $55 billion operating income, $114 billion net income profit is approximately $97 billion.
quick analogy think of a coffee shop revenue equals all money from selling coffee profit equals what's left after paying rent staff beans etc and let's just take a simple realistic small business example so you can see exactly how revenue works step by step Example, small coffee shop.
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