It is a key financial factor that asses the profitability of a company core activities excluding fixed cost. Gross profit margin is defined as the ratio b/w gross profit of the business to the sales revenue generated for the same period. It is a given by the formula shown below: Gross profit margin = (gross profit/sales revenue) × 100 Gross profit margin ratios of BA and Ryan air is shown below: It can be seen from above table that Ryan air performed well compared to BA. Though
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When it comes to for-profit colleges many students end up being in $50‚000 to even a hundred-thousand dollars in debt; making it harder by the day to find a good job-placement after becoming a graduate. The cost of attending a for-profit school is just much‚ as attending a ivy-league school‚ if not more. With most of these colleges having open enrollment‚ this allows the Government to take more/ have access to more money. In my opinion‚ it’s almost a trap in order to lure students into thinking
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P5 – Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet Profit and Loss Sheet: | |£ |£ | |Sales: | |80‚000 | | | | | |Less Cost of Sales: | | | |Opening stock |32‚000 | | |Purchases |6‚000 | | |Less Closing stock
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INTRODUCTION Cost accounting is an important tool in the management of any business firm or organization‚ which includes those in the small scaled industry. In the cause of our research instrument indicated the maintenance of improper and inadequate records coupled with the fact that cost methods used‚ through sometimes effective‚ were unconventional. For a small scale business to approach profit maximization level‚ it must be effective in cost control procedures and appropriate books
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everything else. The costs of doing so would be prohibitive and would‚ effectively‚ mean that every financial report included a mini manual on accounting. This would be unlikely to benefit anyone ‘perfectly’ -- it would either be too little‚ or too much‚ most likely the latter‚ serving only to overwhelm users of those reports/statements with information which is largely unnecessary for their needs. 2.3 Do you believe that the media portray accounting numbers‚ such as profits‚ as some sort of ‘hard’
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Introduction: Our case study is on the Columbia City Bank. First of all we would like to talk about the general inner workings of a bank. A bank generates a profit from the differential between the level of interest it pays for deposits and other sources of funds‚ and the level of interest it charges in its lending activities. In recent history‚ investors have demanded a more stable revenue stream and banks have therefore placed more emphasis on transaction fees‚ primarily loan fees but also
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by private individuals. Usually‚ we have organizations within the economy where one is profit oriented and its main business objective is to make profit from the revenue it tends to make by the end of a certain period‚ therefore‚ nothing from the extra money made will be used to develop the business‚ instead‚ the profit will go to the owner of the business‚ adding to that the owner can be giving some of the profit to its employees as a way of motivation according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which
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THE COST AND SALES CONCEPT Cost is defined as a reduction in the value of an asset for the purpose of securing benefit or gain. Cost is defined in a hotel and restaurant as the expense to a hotel or restaurant for goods or services when the goods are consumed or the services are rendered. KINDS OF COSTS 1. Fixed costs – are those that are normally unaffected by changes in sales volume. They are said to have little direct relationship to the business volume because they do not change
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into a larger market which covers 19 cities‚ but a forecast of the sales and profit of the 19 cities market is necessary. Table 2 shows the result of forecasting and the total contribution in the bigger market which is $5‚149‚320. Let us assume that the costs of up-front investment in market research‚ setup/auditing‚ and public relations campaign don’t have to be repeated in the expanded distribution‚ so the major cost will be the promotion and advertising. Assuming the expenditure is based on a
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TOTAL DIRECT LABOR COST VARIANCE CAN BE SPLIT INTO • Direct labor rate variance (P) Calculation: actual total labor costs - (total actual labor hours worked x budgeted labor hour rate) Interpretation: calculates the portion of labor costs variance driven by the changed labor rate per hour Possible reasons for variances: changes in staff qualification and skills‚ general increase of wages in economy‚ premiums paid to finish a job quickly‚ poor budgeting • Direct labor quantity (efficiency) variance
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