Shell Profits

Here, I'm going to moan about how the media mis-interpret and then mis-present business information. Like Shell declaring a large figure for it's annual profit. 1) It's meant to make a profit 2) If you want, you can set up in competition to them and try and make more profit than they do. A more detailed essay will follow when i get (make?) time.

9.3bn profit
£9,300,000,000 Profit
Captial needed to make that profit = 14,900,000,000
It can also be said that;
= £78,000 per employee
= £0.62p profit for every £1 invested in the company
What's typical for a company?

captial employed

From Shell Websites:
With approximately 119,000 employees in more than 145 countries
and territories around the world, the companies that comprise the
Royal Dutch/Shell Group are engaged in Exploration and Production,
Gas & Power, Oil Products, Chemicals, and Other industry segments
including Renewables, Shell Consumer and Shell Hydrogen.

Excerpt from BBC News
The size of Shell's profits has prompted renewed calls for a 'windfall tax' on the earnings of multinational energy companies.

"It is not unreasonable to assume that the profits that come from these companies should be directed, at least in part - either voluntarily or fiscally - to the UK's disadvantaged energy consumers," he told the BBC.