"The company thus appears to have taken a step to improve its reported profitability in those future periods."

In the future period where the story takes place, time travel has been invented and made commercially available.

The starving creatures promised to repay him at some future period.

So far we have simply assumed a particular growth rate for the firm's earnings over future periods.

Each company is required to make decisions regarding the current and future periods.

In many jurisdictions, income taxes may be deferred to future periods by a number of means.

And we are no more able to assign to the process an infinite future period.

Therefore I shall say good-bye and-go on to some future period.

Such systems often allow a tax deduction for cost recovery in a future period.

The objective is to take these loses all at once, so future periods can show positive net income.