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no, because profitability isn't the key figure they are interested in. it's growth. i recently got fired because of disappointing growth; e.g. the increase in profitability was not as large as they expected. which means they still made more money than last year.
this is why expenditures get relegated to "externality" status; because otherwise projections would make it look like a company can not grow infinitely large, and surely that's not true