Rezultat khozyaystvennoy deyatel'nosti

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Edward M Dumanis wrote:

> As I understand, it is just a vague term that I would translate as
> "(a/the) result of (the) business activity" where "business activity"
> might replaced by something else depending on the context. 
> 
> So, it can be quite a number of things.

"Результат" is not a made-up term (it's actually borrowed from French), 
and it's not vague except among non-accountants. I've seen it many times 
as the "bottom line" on profit-and-loss statements and the like. It 
almost always means "profit or loss" or "net gain or loss" or something 
to that effect. It can sometimes mean "performance" ("ABC's performance 
improved year-over-year") but as you know, if you talk to any 
businessman, the real measure of performance is the bottom line -- how 
much profit did you make? There are no points for artistic merit, only 
for technical excellence. Did you or did you not execute?

By the same token, "хозяйственная деятельность" is routinely used for 
"(business) operations," in other words, all transactions that affect 
the bottom line. Outside of a business context, "деятельность" can have 
a much broader scope, but here it is fairly clear: all transfers of 
funds and/or other assets to or from the company. I would point out one 
"nearby" sense -- in the context of ОКОНХ, ОКПО, etc., companies are 
classified according to "вид деятельности," and that's much closer to 
what you have in mind.

My source for the Russian and French financial equivalents I gave 
earlier this morning:

Dictionnaire Commercial et Financier / Commercial and Financial 
Dictionary / Торгово-финансовый словарь, by K. S. Gavrichina et al. 
Moscow: Vikra, 1993. About 12,230 terms.

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Paul B. Gallagher
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