Difference between Revenue and Receipts

What is the difference between Revenue and Receipts?

Revenue as a noun is the income returned by an investment while Receipts as a noun is the act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

Revenue

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The income returned by an investment The total income received from a given source All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means The total sales; turnover. The net revenue, net sales.

Example sentence: Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Receipts

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give or write a receipt (for something).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

Example sentence: I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

We hope you now know whether to use Revenue or Receipts in your sentence.

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