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Pricing, margins, VAT and tax, break-even and profitability.

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Find how many units you must sell to cover your fixed costs, and how many to reach a profit target.

Compare actual with budget and see whether the variance is favourable or unfavourable.

Project month-by-month cash balance from inflows, outflows and growth rates.

Work out COGS from opening inventory, purchases and closing inventory, and optionally gross profit.

Find how much each sale contributes towards fixed costs and profit.

Straight-line or double-declining depreciation with a year-by-year schedule.

Find the sale price and savings after one or two percentage discounts.

Work out the hourly and daily rate you need to charge to reach a target income, after overhead and billable hours.

How many times inventory is sold and replaced in a period, and the days it sits in stock.

Current ratio, quick ratio and working capital from your balance sheet figures.

Find the selling price, profit and margin from a cost and a target markup.

From revenue to net profit: gross profit, operating profit, profit before tax, tax and net margin.

Find a selling price from your real costs, fees, taxes and goals — with scenarios and the reasoning behind them.

Find profit, margin and markup from revenue and cost.

Find the gain, ROI and annualized return of an investment.

Add tax to a price or remove tax from a tax-inclusive price, using any tax rate.

Look up a country's verified standard VAT or sales-tax rate, with its official source and the date it was checked.