Overall the budget showed a financial surplus - the first since 1978 - of NZ$89 million.

The organizers were successful on all fronts and even managed to achieve a financial surplus.

Although more modest than the previous year, the company once again finished with a financial surplus.

It had been a good year: about 250 professional shows, audiences up by a quarter from the year before and even a financial surplus.

For one thing, voters seemed to realize that most states did not have a huge financial surplus like California's to lean on.

Two years later it asked the hospitals, which then had financial surpluses, to share their bounty.

It said it would soon report its third consecutive year of financial surplus.

It has an annual financial surplus of more than $2 billion.

The state government is showing an unexpected financial surplus after years of coping with deficits.

These dance schools employed 109 persons and generated a financial surplus of nearly 400 000 Euro.