What this is
Net loss of The Pokémon Company’s Tokyo parent company alone for the year to February 2010: ¥144m.
How it’s built
- From the company’s annual results notices in Japan’s official gazette, as transcribed in a table on a Japanese investing blog covering 1999–2016 (amounts converted to millions of yen).
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Retained earnings fell by exactly this loss. The research links loss years to set-up costs, here the Pokémon Center Sapporo store. Parent company only.
Where it comes from
The line in the source
期|決算|利益剰余金|当期純利益 table row: 12 | Feb 2010 | 37.74億円 | loss 1.44億円 [blog table; 億円→¥m ×100; EN: parent net income] Where it’s used
Related figures
The same measure, other periods