Business Formulae

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Revenue (Sales or turnover)
Selling price per unit x Number of units sold
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Variable costs (Total variable costs)
Variable cost per unit x Number of units sold
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Total costs
Fixed costs + Variable costs
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Profit
Total revenue - Total costs OR Total contribution - Fixed cocts
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Market capitalisation of a business
Number of issued shares x Current share price
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Expected value of a decision with two possible outcomes (e.g A&B [Pay-off of A x probability of A] + [Pay-off of B x probability of B]
A & B = [Pay-off of A x probability of A] + [Pay-off of B x probability of B]
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Net gain
Expected value - Initial cost of decision
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Market growth (%)
Change in the size of the market over a period / Original size of the market x 100
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Market share (%)
Sales of one product OR brand OR business / Total sales in the market x 100
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Added value
Sales revenue - costs of bought-in goods and services
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Labour productivity
Output over a time period/ Number of employees
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Unit costs (Average costs)
Total costs/ Number of units of output
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Capacity utilisation (%)
Actual output/ Maximum possible outcome x 100
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Return on investment (%)
Profit from the investment (£) / Cost of the investment (£) x 100
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Gross profit
Revenue - costs of sales
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Profit from organisations
Gross profit - operating profit
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Profit for year
Operating profit + profit from other activities - Net finance cost - Tax
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Gross profit margin (%)
Gross profit / Revenue x 100
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Profit from operations margin
Operating profit / revenue x 100
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Variance
Budgeted figure - actual figure
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Contribution per unit
Selling price - variable costs per unit
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Total contribution
Contribution per unit x units sold OR Total revenue - variable costs
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Break-even output
Fixed costs / contribution per unit
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Margin of safety
Actual output - break-even level of output
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Labour turnover (%)
Number of staff leaving / Number of staff employed by the business x 100
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Employee rentention rate (%) for a particular time period
Number of employees who remained with the business for the whole period of time / Number of employees at the start of the time period x 100
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Labour cost per unit
Labour costs / Units of output
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Return on capital employed (ROCE) (%)
Operating profit / Total equity + non-current liabilities x 100 Where total equity + non-current liabilities = capital employed
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Current ratio
Current assets/ Current liabilities
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Gearing (%)
Non-current liabilities / Total equity + non-current liabilities x 100
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Payables days
Payables / Cost of sales x 365
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Receivables days
Receivables / Revenue x 365
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Inventory turnover
Cost of sales / Average inventories held
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Average rate of return (%)
Average annual return (£) / Initial cost of project (£) x 100
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Card 2

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Variable costs (Total variable costs)

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Variable cost per unit x Number of units sold

Card 3

Front

Total costs

Back

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Card 4

Front

Profit

Back

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Card 5

Front

Market capitalisation of a business

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