A common figure in financial statements is the cost-of-goods sold; the COGS ratio is removed from a company's profits when calculating gross profit, which is a measure of profitability that assesses a ...

No aspect of business proves the adage "to make money you must spend money" truer than inventory; or more to the point – the cost of goods sold. Knowing how much your products cost to make and sell ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The question of whether economics needs reform never seems to go away. The reason is simple. It is that the ...

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Businesses seek to generate profit. To do this, they sell goods to bring in revenue. But revenue and profit aren’t the same. To get from one to the other, you need to factor in the cost of goods sold ...