When you run a company, it’s obviously important to understand how profitable the business is. Many leaders look at profit margin, which measures the total amount by which revenue from sales exceeds ...

Small and large businesses need to understand the relationship between cost, volume and profit to develop their pricing strategies. Setting prices too high might mean lost sales, while discounting ...

When operating a camera business it is important to know how much of your sales actually contributes to your profit. You can figure this out by calculating the contribution margin of your products and ...

With ever-increasing costs of farm inputs, it becomes more important to determine what inputs will be best to control weeds and other detriments to your crops. Although I am not an agronomist, one ...

Gregory Milano is founder and CEO of Fortuna Advisors LLC and author of Curing Corporate Short-Termism, Future Growth vs. Current Earnings. “The perfect is the enemy of the good,” an aphorism often ...

Memo from the Securities and Exchange Commission: If you want to use contribution margin to tout how well your company is doing, you might want to think twice. WeWork tried to brag about its ...