Profits and Profitability
in Business.
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Harvard Business School articles on profitability.
Cost-volume-profit analysis.
Breakeven point analysis.
Breakeven point and profits.
Management Accounting Information Center

An Internet Site For Researching Management, Accounting, and Business  Information
(home)
Sales, inventory, operating expense, and margin data for wholesalers.
Websites linked to from this page hopefully will provide information that will help companies in decisions related to profitability.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Websites with Relevant Information on Profits and Returns” attempts to identify websites that might help management accountants who are analyzing profits and returns. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
Profit analysis.
Profit data.
A break-even analysis toolkit using an Excel spreadsheet.
Profit analysis in the restaurant industry (PDF file).
The graph below was created using Google’s graph tool.

The horizontal bar graph shows the net income as a percentage of sales for 17 business sectors.

The data used in generating the graph is from Professor Aswath Damodaran (New York University)'s website.  The data can be viewed by clicking
here.   Click here to go to Professor Damodaran’s home page.

The data shown in the graph should be useful to business owners who want to compare their net income to net income of similar companies.
Net Income as a Percentage of Sales for 17 Business Sectors