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Profit Margin field in Item Properties...worthless or not? hitmanú­™©ÝŠÇ.²È¨žÉ¢rº,¡û\¢ 10-18-2005
---> RE: Profit Margin field in Item Properties...worth... Brian Wannanøâjušžv§v+ºË"¢{&10-18-2005
Posted by hitmanú­™©ÝŠÇ.²È¨žÉ¢rº,¡û\¢ on October 18, 2005, 1:24 am
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My accounting folks have just now started to notice that the 3-4 keystone
markups they entered (in terms of our individual item costs) are not being
reflected in the Profit Margin field for any of our items...is there any way
to modify or change the way RMS calculates this? It's pretty funny because
it will almost show it correctly if you do the inverse (i.e. a $10 Price and
$40 Cost yields 300% margin, albeit a negative one...but a regular $40 price
and $10 Cost shows a worthless 75%...what good is this??). Ideally we'd like
to be able to enter our cost and the desired markup/margin and have the Price
calculated accordingly...is this too much to hope for?
Also, does this issue with the profit margin property carry over into the
sales reporting as well?

Thanx & regards,

-=Rich=-


Posted by Brian Wannanøâjušžv§v+ºË"¢{& on October 18, 2005, 7:25 am
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The former is Markup. The later is margin. That's the difference.
Igt would be helpful to have a setup option that would let the customer
decide on whether they are using margin or markup for calculations.
To further clarify, an item with a cost of $10.00 and a selling price of
$20.00 has a markup of 100% and also has a 50% margin. I hope this helps.

"hitman" wrote:

> My accounting folks have just now started to notice that the 3-4 keystone
> markups they entered (in terms of our individual item costs) are not being
> reflected in the Profit Margin field for any of our items...is there any way
> to modify or change the way RMS calculates this? It's pretty funny because
> it will almost show it correctly if you do the inverse (i.e. a $10 Price and
> $40 Cost yields 300% margin, albeit a negative one...but a regular $40 price
> and $10 Cost shows a worthless 75%...what good is this??). Ideally we'd like
> to be able to enter our cost and the desired markup/margin and have the Price
> calculated accordingly...is this too much to hope for?
> Also, does this issue with the profit margin property carry over into the
> sales reporting as well?
>
> Thanx & regards,
>
> -=Rich=-


Posted by Ivan Brebner on October 19, 2005, 8:15 am
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yeah this how I see it a region issue whereby this may be ok for the states
but most other places where taxes are non state based but item based, the
calc is not as other products present the information.

I think just another field


Ivan

> The former is Markup. The later is margin. That's the difference.
> Igt would be helpful to have a setup option that would let the customer
> decide on whether they are using margin or markup for calculations.
> To further clarify, an item with a cost of $10.00 and a selling price of
> $20.00 has a markup of 100% and also has a 50% margin. I hope this helps.
>
> "hitman" wrote:
>
>> My accounting folks have just now started to notice that the 3-4 keystone
>> markups they entered (in terms of our individual item costs) are not
>> being
>> reflected in the Profit Margin field for any of our items...is there any
>> way
>> to modify or change the way RMS calculates this? It's pretty funny
>> because
>> it will almost show it correctly if you do the inverse (i.e. a $10 Price
>> and
>> $40 Cost yields 300% margin, albeit a negative one...but a regular $40
>> price
>> and $10 Cost shows a worthless 75%...what good is this??). Ideally we'd
>> like
>> to be able to enter our cost and the desired markup/margin and have the
>> Price
>> calculated accordingly...is this too much to hope for?
>> Also, does this issue with the profit margin property carry over into the
>> sales reporting as well?
>>
>> Thanx & regards,
>>
>> -=Rich=-




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