The Shell truth and nothing but the truth

So I looked up the particulars of Shell oil's profits last night, took me all of 5min, the link is below. If you look at the balance sheet you can determine not only their profit for the whole of last year ($31,331,000,000.00US), but also all of the other financials of the company. Several things here; first when determining the value of any particular fact it is always important to ask yourself, "compared to what?" In other words realize the truth that things do not happen in a vacuum, but rather in a contextual relationship with their surroundings. In the case of profits, they are always, by any business person worth their salt, compared to the revenue created by the company's actions. In Shell Oil's case, they had total revenues in 2007 of ($355,782,000,000US). This means that their total profit margin for fiscal 2007 was 8.8%, by no means or any standard does this illustrate gauging.

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