The Accounts of industrial Firms in 1980: the Relapse - After the recovery of the accounting balance of firms in 1979, the year 1980 was a year of setbacks for industrial corporations. This observation, based on a sampling of income-tax returns concerning profits in industry and business, must naturally take into account exceptions within different sectors. It was the intermediate industries that were the hardest hit, compared with 1979. The firms in this sector were unable to correct the unfavorable trend in the primary distribution of their added value and failed to manage properly their capital reserves, primarily the financing of its accumulation. It seems that the decline in the profitability of professional capital goods was stopped i...