Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20171231161124/@comment-53539-20180213133520

I've spent a day or so far trying to explain in regards to NATA Income sales is not pure Net profit. Today someone stated Azura paid an artist and devs... I felt like saying "Yes, this is what I tried to say yesterday" as I was explaining costs eat out of Sales Income. Even if the artist was hired a year ago... It still counts as a cost to development Nata. If he ran away with the actual net profit, okay there is a problem only if he promised money and didn't give it to someone... He is allowed to take profit for future re-investments and out of a basic wage.

This is why you should never discuss money matters if you only have part of the sales figures. If all you have is part of the story, details are left out. Sure, people fiddle money all the time. My Landlady taught me a lot of this as she is a former accountant. Accountants are paid to fiddle books and she did that for years on behalf of her company. When I discussed the situation with her in regards to NATA, she also agreed with me.

And I finish off with the same in fun fact here as on the A/E wikia;

I once had trouble explaining on the One Piece wikia that you cannot write Blackbeard has B0 bounty (We don't have the beli symbol so I have to use 'b' sorry). Its not the same as noting he has no bounty. In money terms $0 has value as it is greater in value then -$1 and less valuable then $1. So to write B0 meant they were saying Blackbeard had indeed a bounty, but it was worth B0. IT is not the same therefore as saying "no bounty at all". The problem is naturally people sometimes have difficulty in the concept of "0" and what it means in terms of the value of things.

Its something actually Rick and Morty brought up when Rick turned a value of 1 into 0, making the big over hanging galactic government (forget its name) a worthless governing body as it had no money to pay anyone. Paying someone $0 is not the same as them working for nothing in the over arching grand scheme of things. Ergo, always important to remember that 0 has value when we're talking about money.