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What is Profit?

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On this page are some extracts from our booklet called "What is Profit?". Sorry surfers, it's too valuable to put the whole thing on the web site. It's available to existing clients only. 

Profit is what's left over after you've paid all your expenses. The important thing to note is that profit is "what's left over". In other words, profit is a residual. It is the consequence of what happens in and to your business.

If you're looking for ways to increase your profitability, you have to focus on the four profit determining factors: price, volume, variable costs, and fixed costs.
 
If your gross margin is 30% and you reduce your price by 10%, you need sales volume to increase by 50% to maintain your initial profit.

On the other hand...at a 30% margin and a 10% increase in price, you could sustain a 25% reduction in sales volume before your profit is reduced to the initial level.
 
In business it's mighty hard to pull rabbits out of a hat. So there is one over-riding consideration that must be accepted: "If what you are doing now isn't working then you must do something different!"
 
Improved business performance comes from a willingness to do something different and then get the details right. If you get all the little things right...the big picture looks after itself.

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