{"id":589006,"date":"2026-10-14T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=589006"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:58:28","slug":"belarusian-companies-profit-growth-slowed-in-august-as-debt-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-companies-profit-growth-slowed-in-august-as-debt-increased","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Companies\u2019 Profit Growth Slowed in August as Debt Increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belstat has published data on the financial performance of Belarusian organizations in January\u2013August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Belstat\u2019s preliminary report excludes banks, non-bank financial institutions, insurance companies, budget-funded organizations and organizations without departmental reporting that employ fewer than 50 people.<\/p>\n<p>In January\u2013August, organizations\u2019 revenue increased by 10.8% to 388.17 billion roubles. In August, revenue amounted to approximately 53.4 billion roubles, up 1.6 billion roubles from July.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of goods sold rose by 10.8% to 318.7 billion roubles.<\/p>\n<p>Net profit increased by 5.4% to 16.73 billion roubles, including 2.13 billion roubles in August.<\/p>\n<p>The sales profitability ratio stood at 6.9%, unchanged from the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,702 organizations reported losses in January\u2013August, 29.2% more than in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts receivable stood at 109.4 billion roubles as of September 1. It increased by 1.7 billion roubles in August and by 3.5% since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts payable rose by 4 billion roubles in August to 131.03 billion roubles, up 5.8% since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding loans and borrowings increased by 4.9% since the beginning of the year to 149.06 billion roubles. They rose by 2.1 billion roubles in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belstat has published data on the financial performance of Belarusian organizations in January\u2013August 2026. Belstat\u2019s preliminary report excludes banks, non-bank financial institutions, insurance companies, budget-funded organizations and organizations without departmental reporting that employ fewer than 50 people. In January\u2013August, organizations\u2019 revenue increased by 10.8% to 388.17 billion roubles. In August, revenue amounted to approximately 53.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":589007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acf4437e62bd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Companies\u2019 Profit Growth Slowed in August as Debt Increased"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589008,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589006\/revisions\/589008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}