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Profit Margins

Calculate, benchmark, and improve profit margins across your business

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19 май 2026 г.11 минути четене

Pet Boarding, Daycare, and Grooming Bookkeeping: Run-Night Revenue, Add-On Allocation, and Gingr/PetExec Reconciliation

Pet boarding, daycare, and grooming operators run three businesses under one roof — services earned over time, retail earned at sale, and pass-throughs that are never revenue. This guide builds a chart of accounts that separates service lines, recognizes boarding revenue per run-night through a deferred-revenue liability, allocates add-ons to the service that produced them, and reconciles Gingr or PetExec daily summaries to the bank deposit by isolating processor fees, tips payable, deposits, and refunds.

Mike Thrift

bookkeepingsmall-businesschart-of-accounts

18 май 2026 г.9 минути четене

Brewery Bookkeeping: Cost Per Barrel, TTB Excise Tax, and the Shrinkage That Makes COGS Lie

How to build a craft brewery's books so cost of goods sold tells the truth—a production chart of accounts, a true cost-per-barrel formula using net barrels, TTB excise tax rates ($3.50/barrel on the first 60,000), and the 3–8% shrinkage that inflates margin if ignored.

Mike Thrift

bookkeepingsmall-businessinventory

18 май 2026 г.13 минути четене

Common-Size and Trend Analysis: Turning Financial Statements Into Percentages to Catch Margin Erosion

Common-size analysis restates every line of a financial statement as a percentage of revenue or total assets; trend analysis indexes the same lines across years. Together they expose cost creep, margin erosion, and balance sheet drift that raw dollars hide, and they make a $2M business meaningfully comparable to a $50M peer.

Mike Thrift

financial-analysisfinancial-statementsbenchmarks

18 май 2026 г.11 минути четене

DuPont Analysis Demystified: How to Decompose Return on Equity Into the Three Levers Owners Actually Control

A practical guide to DuPont Analysis — how to split return on equity into net margin, asset turnover, and the equity multiplier (3-step), or further into tax and interest burdens (5-step), with worked examples, trade-offs, and the pitfalls that catch people who apply it mechanically.

Mike Thrift

financial-ratiosfinancial-analysisprofitability

18 май 2026 г.10 минути четене

Markup Versus Margin: The Pricing Math Small Businesses Get Wrong

A 50% markup is a 33.3% margin, not a 50% margin — markup divides profit by cost, margin divides it by selling price. This guide gives the conversion formulas, a reference table, and shows how the mix-up quietly costs small businesses thousands.

Mike Thrift

pricing-strategiesprofit-marginsprofitability

18 май 2026 г.14 минути четене

Staffing Agency Accounting: Bill Rate, Burden, and the Payroll-to-Payment Gap

How staffing agencies should price bill rates above fully burdened pay rates, read gross margin by placement type, and book invoice factoring without hiding the spread. Includes burden components (FICA, FUTA, SUTA, workers' comp), a placement-aware chart of accounts, and the DSO math behind payroll funding gaps.

Mike Thrift

bookkeepingsmall-businesspayroll

17 май 2026 г.10 минути четене

The Rule of 40 for SaaS Founders: Calculation, Benchmarks, and When to Ignore It

The Rule of 40 says a healthy SaaS company's revenue growth rate plus profit margin should clear 40%. This guide covers how to calculate it, which margin metric to use, 2026 benchmarks (median score around 12%), the Rule of X variant, and when the rule does not apply.

Mike Thrift

saasbenchmarksfinancial-ratios

15 май 2026 г.11 минути четене

Анализ на точката на рентабилност: Колко единици трябва да продаде един малък бизнес, за да има печалба?

Точката на рентабилност в единици е равна на общите фиксирани разходи, разделени на маржа на приноса за единица. Това ръководство показва как да разделите фиксираните и променливите разходи, да изчислите маржа на приноса, да намерите обема на продажбите на точката на рентабилност и да измерите маржа на безопасност.

Mike Thrift

small-businessprofitabilityprofit-margins

15 май 2026 г.13 минути четене

Анализ на точката на рентабилност и марж на приноса: Формулата, която всеки малък бизнес трябва да изчислява месечно

Изчислете своята точка на рентабилност чрез формулата за марж на приноса, обхващаща постоянни и променливи разходи, граница на сигурност и сценарии за ценообразуване при множество продукти.

Mike Thrift

small-businesspricing-strategiesprofit-margins

15 май 2026 г.9 минути четене

Restaurant Prime Cost: Why Weekly Tracking Beats the Monthly Close

Prime cost combines food, beverage, and labor as a percentage of sales—target 55–60% for quick-service and 60–65% for full-service. Tracking it weekly instead of monthly catches portioning and scheduling problems within seven days, while a 4% food cost variance on $1M in sales quietly costs $40,000 a year.

Mike Thrift

small-businessprofit-marginscost-of-goods-sold

15 май 2026 г.11 минути четене

Weekly Prime Cost Tracking for Restaurants: Hit the 55–65% Benchmark and Catch Margin Leaks Before Month-End

A working operator's guide to calculating restaurant prime cost every seven days, the 55–65% benchmark by service segment, the five leaks weekly tracking surfaces first, and the bookkeeping setup the cadence requires.

Mike Thrift

restaurantcost-of-goods-soldprofit-margins

14 май 2026 г.12 минути четене

Activity-Based Costing and TDABC: A Practical Guide to Customer and SKU Profitability

Activity-Based Costing replaces volume-based overhead allocation with cause-and-effect cost drivers, revealing which customers and SKUs actually pay and which silently lose money. This guide explains how ABC and its modern successor TDABC work, the five implementation steps, and why roughly 20% of customers and 30–40% of SKUs often destroy value.

Mike Thrift

cost-managementexpense-allocationprofitability

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