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Business guides explain the calculations behind pricing, costs and financing in plain language, with worked examples you can repeat with your own numbers. Start with how to calculate profit margin and profit margin vs markup, then read how to calculate a break-even point to see how many sales cover your fixed costs.

Other articles cover the true cost of an employee beyond salary, the difference between an LLC and an S corp, what restaurant prime cost is, how to calculate trucking cost per mile, what a chargeback really costs, how invoice factoring works and what the APR of a merchant cash advance means.

Each guide links to a matching tool in the business calculators topic, so you can move from the explanation to your own figures. The articles are educational and use published sources where rules or averages are quoted. They are not accounting, legal or tax advice, so check important decisions with a qualified professional.

Business has 11 free guides, including Equipment Lease Payments Explained (With Example), What Does a Chargeback Really Cost a Business? and How to Calculate Trucking Cost Per Mile. Pick one below, or use the A–Z list further down to reach any of them from this page.

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What Is Restaurant Prime Cost?

Restaurant prime cost is the total of your cost of goods sold, meaning food and beverage, plus your total labor…

What guides are in Business?

Business has 11 guides. Here is the full list from A to Z: