[Wowfunhappy]

...I kind of don't understand why revenue is ever a useful metric. I imagine I could make a lot of revenue selling hundred dollar bills for $10.

[jcranmer]

The value of revenue as a metric is that you can't really play financial games to screw with revenue, while there's lots of stuff you can do to inflate or deflate your profit. See, e.g., Hollywood accounting.

Neither revenue nor profit is the full story, though.

[JumpCrisscross]

> you can't really play financial games to screw with revenue

Accrual accounting gives lots of room for revenue-recognition fuckery [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revenuerecognition.asp