Retained earnings (profits kept in the business to date) of The Pokémon Company’s Tokyo parent company at February 2012

What this is

Retained earnings (profits kept in the business to date) of The Pokémon Company’s Tokyo parent company at February 2012: ¥4.71bn.

How it’s built

1. 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

The same blog’s second transcription gives ¥4,720m, which matches last year’s ¥5,114m less the ¥395m loss (¥4,719m) and rolls forward to 2013. ¥4,713m is probably a typo.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

期|決算|利益剰余金|当期純利益 table row: 14 | Feb 2012 | 47.13億円 | loss 3.95億円 [EN: retained earnings]

Where it’s used

• Deep dive · The Pokémon CompanyThe thin years, 1998–2015
• Chart · The thin years, 1998–2015Eighteen years of profit built about ¥10bn, nearly all of it kept

Related figures

Built from this one

• ReportedA check on the blog transcription of the Tokyo parent’s 1999–2017 accounts

The same measure, other periods

• ReportedYear to February 2015 (parent-only, 決算公告)¥9.8bn
• ReportedYear to February 2014 (parent-only, 決算公告)¥7.7bn
• ReportedYear to February 2013 (parent-only, 決算公告)¥6.6bn
• ReportedYear to February 2011 (parent-only, 決算公告)¥5.1bn
• ReportedYear to February 2010 (parent-only, 決算公告)¥3.8bn
• ReportedYear to February 2009 (parent-only, 決算公告)¥3.9bn