Forbes magazine lists the worlds largest corporations by several categories including sales and profitability (profits according to
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When ranked by profits, seven of the top 10 are U.S. companies (no German company and only one Japanese company appears in the top 30). Other than economic factors, what could cause this difference in rankings for sales and reportedprofits?
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Global 2000 Rank Revenues (billions of s) Company Wal-Mart Stores. .. 285.22 285.06 265.19 263.99 193.45 92.75 70.84 65.68 152.36 142.90 Royal Dutch/Shell Group... ExxonMobil.... General Motors. DaimlerChrysler. Ford Motor Toyota Motor.... 10 Chevron Texaco
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