Finance formulas

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What’s the formula for break-even?

Break-even= Fixed costs/ Contribution per unit

CPU= (selling price-variable costs)

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How do you calculate total costs

Total costs= fixed costs+ variable costs

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How to calculate profit

Profit= total sales- total costs

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How to calculate total sales

Total sales= volume sold x average selling price

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How to calculate average revenue

Average revenue= total revenue/ number of sales

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How to calculate payback

-add each years net cash flow

-use the year just under the initial investment(amount of years)

-that net cash flow taken from the initial investment

-divide that amount from the net cash flow of the following year

-times that number by 12 to find the amount of months

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How to calculate the Average Rate of Return (ARR)

  • add up all the profits for the year

  • Minus the initial investment from the total

  • Divide the new figure by the number of years the project runs for

  • Divide this figure by the cost of the initial investment

  • Multiply the result by 100 to get a %

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How to calculate the Net Present Value

-Net Cash Flow x Discount Factor

-Add them up - initial investment

-Discount factor= t / (1 + r)t

T=year number

R= discount rate

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How do you calculate net cash flow

Net cash flow= total outflows - total inflows

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How to calculate Net Current Assets ( working capital)

Net current assets= current assets - current liabilities

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How to calculate revenue

Revenue= units sold x unit price

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How to calculate retained profit

Profit for the year - dividends

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How to calculate gross profit

Gross Profit= total revenue - cost of sales

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How to calculate the operating profit

Operating profit= gross profit - expenses

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How to calculate profit before tax

Profit before tax= operating profit - finance costs

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How to calculate cost of sales (COGS)

Opening inventory + purchases - closing inventory

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How to calculate net profit margin

Profit before revenue and tax / revenue x100

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How to calculate total assets

Current assets + non current assets

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How to calculate gross profit margin

Gross profit / cost of sales x100

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How to calculate current ratio

Current assets / current liabilities

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How to calculate acid test ratio

Current assets - stock(inventory) / current liabilities

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How to calculate the index number

Number in year required/ number in base year x100

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How to calculate index change

Value of the year / base year x100

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How to use index numbers to work backwards

Base year x (index for year/ base index)

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How to calculate index of sales

Price in year/ price in base year x value of the index

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How to calculate ROCE (return on capital employed)

Operating profit/ capital employed x100

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How to calculate market share

Business sales/ total market sales x100

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How to calculate ROE (return on equity)

Profit for the year/ total equity x100