The banking company projects after-tax earnings of at least $800 million.

The effect on after-tax earnings in the quarter was 2 to 3 cents a share.

But after the numbers have all been crunched, the spread in after-tax earnings can sometimes be little more than a point.

The company's after-tax earnings in its most recent fiscal year were $9.4 million, according to its annual report.

Manufacturers Hanover projected that after-tax earnings in 1988 would amount to at least $800 million.

Without that charge, the transportation and energy concern said it would have had after-tax earnings from operations of $120 million, or 78 cents a share.

After-tax earnings in the forest products group were $1.5 million, compared with $2.4 million for the quarter last year.

That addition reduced after-tax earnings by $31 million.

That will result in a $37 million charge against after-tax earnings in the fourth quarter, the company said.

Inmet will record an after-tax earnings increase of about $7 million (Canadian) from the transaction.

Under their option agreements, they receive a price equal to 15 times the preceding year's after-tax earnings.

The state's pension principle has been that retirement income of former employees should equal net after-tax earnings on the job.

The Scripps Company declines to give after-tax earnings for individual papers.

Refining and marketing operations contributed after-tax earnings of $91 million, up from $72 million last year.

Citibank's South African subsidiary has contributed about 1 percent of its after-tax earnings over the last five years.

It would also hurt the stockholders of about 14,500 banks and savings associations, reducing the industry's after-tax earnings by more than 4 percent.

Weyerhaeuser said it would take year-end special charges and a credit that would reduce its after-tax earnings.

The latest restructuring will result in a one-time reduction in fourth-quarter after-tax earnings of $327 million, or $2.43 a share.

Some people claim there is not much difference between the after-tax earnings of low-paid workers and their social security entitlements when out of work.

The earnings are consolidated, meaning that the after-tax earnings for the subsidiary are not broken out.

Cost-cutting and an increase in sales have resulted in after-tax earnings rising to more than $25 million this year, from about $6 million.

A year ago, Chase's after-tax earnings were inflated by $161 million because of tax benefits and profits from the sale of various subsidiaries.

In the first six months of the current fiscal year, the company says its after-tax earnings came to 22 percent of total revenues, which were $107.7 million.

But Mr. Feinberg uses after-tax earnings, the complaint charges.

Texaco will take charges of $4.9 billion against its fourth-quarter after-tax earnings in order to finance its bankruptcy reorganization.