Cost of goods sold (COGS) is the determination of how much it costs retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers to produce the goods they sell. For makers and resellers of products, COGS, sometimes also ...

Businesses seek to generate profit. To do this, they sell goods to bring in revenue. But revenue and profit aren’t the same. To get from one to the other, you need to factor in the cost of goods sold ...

We are a team of writers, experimenters and researchers providing you with the best advice with zero bias or partiality. You know how in Dragon’s Den they get all excited when they hear a product with ...

A common figure in financial statements is the cost-of-goods sold; the COGS ratio is removed from a company's profits when calculating gross profit, which is a measure of profitability that assesses a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Same-store sales, margins, inventory levels — these are some of the metrics investors look at when it comes to ...