{"id":16173,"date":"2009-11-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/11\/03\/microspeak-net-out\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T07:00:00","slug":"microspeak-net-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091103-00\/?p=16173","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Net out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started out in finance, but the term has crept into more mainstream usage (at least within Microsoft) and along the way picked up its own meaning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> Where did we <u>net out<\/u> on this? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> Customers want you to <u>net out<\/u> the business value. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> Note any significant changes to the forecast and explain the reasons why. <u>Net out<\/u> changes to start conversation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p>  Include the following points in your presentation: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8230; <\/li>\n<li><u>Net out<\/u> action plan     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/09\/25\/5108967.aspx\">     moving forward<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> The next citation is a bullet point from a PowerPoint slide:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\">\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"+2\"><b>Agenda<\/b><\/font><br \/> <font size=\"+1\"><b>Each district\/vertical will answer\/report back on:<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>Net out top 3 business <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/01\/07\/48304.aspx\">asks<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> (I also have some finance citations, but they aren&#8217;t relevant to Microspeak, so I&#8217;ve left them out.)\n In finance, to <i>net out<\/i> is to cancel out positive and negative amounts. For example, you might <i>net out<\/i> an account by cancelling amounts owed against amounts due in order to eliminate offsetting transactions. When calculating tax liability, you <i>net out<\/i> your gains against your losses to determine your net change for the tax period.\n In Microspeak, well, I&#8217;m not sure what it means. In that first citation, it appears to be a synonym for <i>come to a conclusion<\/i>. The question appears to be a rephrasing of &#8220;What was our conclusion on this?&#8221; or &#8220;What did we finally decide on this?&#8221;\n In the second citation, it appears to be a synonym for <i>summarize in terms of net benefit\/loss<\/i>. &#8220;Customers want you to show the net benefit of the product.&#8221;\n In the third citation, it appears to be used merely to mean <i>summarize<\/i>.\n And in the final two citations, it appears to be simply a verb meaning <i>to produce<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> Note that <i>net out<\/i> is unrelated to that other Microspeak phrase <i>net net<\/i>, discussed earlier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started out in finance, but the term has crept into more mainstream usage (at least within Microsoft) and along the way picked up its own meaning: Where did we net out on this? Customers want you to net out the business value. Note any significant changes to the forecast and explain the reasons why. 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