Recipe vs. Revenue — What's the Difference?

A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a dish of prepared food.

In accounting, revenue is the income or increase in net assets that an entity has from its normal activities (in the case of a business, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers). Commercial revenue may also be referred to as sales or as turnover.

A set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients required

Income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature

A set of directions with a list of ingredients for making or preparing something, especially food.

The income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses.

A formula for or means to a desired end

Yield from property or investment; income.

A medical prescription.

All the income produced by a particular source.

A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.

A governmental department set up to collect public funds.

Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.

The income returned by an investment.

By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.

The total income received from a given source.

Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt.

(accounting) The net income from normal business operations; net sales.

A prescription for medicine.

(figurative) A return; something paid back.

A prescription for medicine.

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

A set of directions for preparing food from its ingredients.

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

A method or procedure for accomplishing a goal by defined steps; - implying a high probability of achieving the goal; as, a recipe for success. Also used in a negative sense, as, a recipe for disaster.

That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

Directions for making something

Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

The entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Government income due to taxation