This calculator requires the use of Javascript enabled and capable browsers. This script displays the effect and impact of a given discount on an individual item sale. It calculates the individual sale retail margin, usually a high ticket item, from the expenses and the sales price of that item. Expense, profit and sales information all must be derived from that individual item. Accumulate the sale revenue data. This is called the Gross Sales Revenue, or the selling price. Accumulate all expenses related to that sale; most often that is cost of the item sold and labor to sell it. Other percentages of expenses CAN be relagated to proportional expense of the sale. Sometimes this is called a sales net profit but it is NOT a true net profit. Subtract the sale expenses from the gross sale amout. This yields the sale profit. Divide the sale profit by the gross sale amount. This yields the sale margin in decimal. Multiply by 100 to get a whole number percent. Divide the sale profit by the gross sale expense. This yields the sale markup in decimal. Multiply by 100 to get a whole number percent. You may enter a discount percentage to see the effect or enter zero (0) for no discount.
Enter the revenue and expense figures from your individual sale data. Enter the discount percent as a whole number; you MAY enter a decimal for percent in that IF you wish to have 30 and a half percent as the discount value, it would be entered 30.5 in the discount value field. Click the Calculate button; read the sale profit, profit margin and the profit markup from both the discounted and normal sale results. You may click on Clear Values and do another. You MAY enter a decimal for data in the revenue and expense fields but do not enter any commas or dollar signs (, or $). Sale profit and gross profit are somewhat synamous but are different from net profit. These expenses are ONLY for sale related expense while ALL expenses are taken into account with net profit.
