Incremental cost is an important calculation for understanding numbers at different levels of scale. The calculation is used to display change in cost as production rises. If you manufacture one unit ...

Overhead costs are expenses tied to things other than the production of goods or services. Here's how to calculate overhead.

The high-low method is used in cost accounting to estimate fixed and variable costs based on a business's highest and lowest levels of activity. By focusing on these extremes, the high-low method ...

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Every business has fixed costs, which play roles in determining break-even points. Businesses also have variable costs, which make finding the actual break-even point more difficult than in ...

You know your burn rate. You check your bank balance more often than you check Slack. But when an investor, advisor, or even a potential cofounder asks, “When do you break even?” there’s often a pause ...

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Last month, we discussed various pricing methods, and how aggressive pricing models do not necessarily generate operating losses if one controls costs in sync with aggressive pricing to generate a ...

(The video above features cost-accounting tips in a discussion with Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio, ATBS' Mike Hosted and Overdrive contributor and owner-operator business coach Gary Buchs, from a talk ...

To run a company successfully, you need to know everything about your business, including its financials. One of the most critical financial metrics to grasp is the contribution margin, which can help ...