Business

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.