Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• REVENUE
  
  Revenue is the money you collect for providing a product or service. Revenue is different from earnings, which is what's left of your revenue after subtracting the costs of producing or delivering the product or service and any taxes you paid on the amount you took in. When corporations release their financial statements, those that provide services, such as power or telecommunications companies, describe their income as revenues, while those that manufacture products, such as lightbulbs or books, describe their income as sales. In either case, they're reporting the amount they take in before expenses, taxes and other charges are subtracted. The money a government collects in taxes is also called revenue, and in the US the department that collects those taxes is called the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
  
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