gross sales
(noun)
The total invoice value of sales, before deducting customers' discounts, returns, or allowances.
Examples of gross sales in the following topics:
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Recording Sales
- Net sales are gross sales minus sales returns, sales allowances, and sales discounts.
- In financial ratios that use income statement sales values, "sales" refers to net sales, not gross sales.
- Gross sales are the sum of all sales during a time period.
- Net sales are gross sales minus sales returns, sales allowances, and sales discounts.
- Gross sales do not normally appear on an income statement.
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Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
- Gross profit or sales profit is the difference between revenue and the cost of making a product or providing a service.
- In accounting, gross profit or sales profit is the difference between revenue and the cost of making a product or providing a service before deducting overhead, payroll, taxation, and interest payments.
- The various deductions leading from net sales to net income are as follows:
- These costs are treated as an expense during the period in which the business recognizes income from sale of the goods.
- Explain the difference between cost of goods sold and gross profit
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Sales Forecast Input
- For financial ratios that use income statement sales values, "sales" refers to net sales, not gross sales.
- Gross sales are the sum of all sales during a time period.
- Net sales are gross sales minus sales returns, sales allowances, and sales discounts.
- Gross sales do not normally appear on an income statement.
- The sales figures reported on an income statement are net sales.
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Profit Margin
- Profit margin measures the amount of profit a company earns from its sales and is calculated by dividing profit (gross or net) by sales.
- The higher the profit margin, the more profit a company earns on each sale.
- Net profit is the gross profit minus all other expenses.
- The gross profit margin calculation uses gross profit and the net profit margin calculation uses net profit .
- The percentage of net profit (gross profit minus all other expenses) earned on a company's sales.
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Gross Profit Method
- The gross profit (or gross margin) method uses the previous year's average gross profit margin (i.e. sales minus cost of goods sold divided by sales) to calculate the value of the inventory.
- Gross profit ratio equals gross profit divided by sales.
- Multiply sales made during the period by gross profit ratio to obtain estimated cost of goods sold.
- Sales were $1000.
- The gross profit (or gross margin) method uses the previous year's average gross profit margin (i.e. sales minus cost of goods sold divided by sales) to calculate the value of the inventory.
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Total Assets Turnover Ratio
- This is a financial ratio that measures the efficiency of a company's use of its assets in generating sales revenue or sales income to the company.
- "Sales" is the value of "Net Sales" or "Sales" from the company's income statement".
- Also referred to as revenue, they are reported directly on the income statement as Sales or Net sales.
- In financial ratios that use income statement sales values, "sales" refers to net sales, not gross sales.
- Asset turnover measures the efficiency of a company's use of its assets in generating sales revenue or sales income to the company.
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Gross Domestic Product
- Under economic theory, GDP per capita exactly equals the gross domestic income (GDI) per capita.
- consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports)
- Estimating the gross value of domestic output in various economic activities;
- By collecting data on gross sales and inventories from the records of companies and adding them together.
- If GDP is calculated this way, it is sometimes called Gross Domestic Income (GDI).
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Revenues
- For some businesses, such as manufacturing and/or grocery, most revenue is from the sale of goods.
- It is usually presented as sales minus sales discounts, returns and allowances.
- In business, revenue is income that a company receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers.
- This is referred to as gross revenue or sales revenue.
- There are several financial ratios attached to it, the most important being gross margin and profit margin.
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Overview of Merchandising Operations
- Merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer.
- In the broadest sense, merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer.
- At a retail in-store level, merchandising refers to the variety of products available for sale and how the products are displayed to stimulate interest and entice customers to make a purchase.
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- Merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer.
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Calculating GDP
- Gross domestic product is one method of understanding a country's income and allows for comparison to other countries .
- Both of these methods calculate GDP by evaluating the final stage of sales (expenditure) or income (income).
- Deducting intermediate consumption from gross value to obtain the net value of domestic output.
- Net value added = Gross value of output – Value of intermediate consumption.
- Gross value of output = Value of the total sales of goods and services + Value of changes in the inventories.