A Review of the Basics for Lost Profits (Part VI) The first five installments of this series have been a review of the basics for calculating lost profits. In the series, lost profits was defined, the common methods used for calculating lost profits (yardstick, before and after, sales projections, market) were discussed, the court standards for assessing lost profits (foreseeability, proximate cause, reasonable certainty) were reviewed, the way of discounting future lost profits to present value was presented, modeling lost profits calculations and how these factors impact the discount rate were discussed. In addition, this series has addressed the differences…