What this is
Game Freak’s retained profits at 31 March 2015: about ¥9.97bn.
How it’s built
- Read from Game Freak's annual results notice in Japan's official gazette, from the page image; printed in thousands of yen and recorded in millions.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Share capital is only ¥10m, so this is nearly all of Game Freak’s equity. It slightly exceeded The Pokémon Company Tokyo company’s retained profits at the time.
Where it comes from
Statutory accounts notice: Game Freak, 2015 Official Gazette of Japan · 27 October 2015
The line in the source
利益剰余金 9,973,522 (千円) In English
retained earnings ¥9,973.522m as of 2015-03-31; Game Freak 貸借対照表の要旨, parent-only
Where it’s used
Related figures
The same measure, other periods