Hard to say they mean either, financials are public, https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/microsoft-round-island-one https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/mic

Hard to say they mean either, financials are public, https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/microsoft-round-island-one https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/microsoft-round-island... It lists 9bn in profit. The quoted document > https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20794038/microsoft-round-island-one-end-june-2020.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20794038/microsof... Disagrees with the public finances above: the issue is that the document says "$ 000". It's a typo, the numbers are just dollar amounts. And the text of the report proves it, it explicitly says profit of the year was 13bn. EDIT: the report is very confusing. It looks like there could be an argument to say it is genuinely 300bn -- the issue is there's *operating profit* of 13bn... but a secondary "profit" from the liquidation of subsidy companies. So the issue is the article presents this as an operating profit, but it isnt.