How Abdul Datarwala Built Quanzar After Scaling From $7M to $85M+
Revenue growth can make an industrial business look healthier while making it harder to see what is actually happening underneath. Abdu...
How to Price a Manufacturing Job: The Complete Guide
Our guide to job costing covers how to build an accurate cost for a specific job. Our guide to gross margin vs. markup covers the singl...
Manufacturing KPIs That Actually Predict Profitability
Revenue tells a manufacturer whether the business is growing. It says nothing about whether that growth is profitable, sustainable, or ...
Job Costing for Manufacturers: The Complete Guide
Our guide to cost of goods sold covers the accounting formula that produces COGS at the company level. Job costing is the operational s...
Gross Margin vs. EBITDA in Manufacturing M&A
Our complete guide to gross margin touches on how EBITDA margin differs from gross margin. In a manufacturing acquisition, that differe...
How to Track Gross Margin by Customer
Our complete guide to gross margin makes the case that a company-wide average hides real problems underneath it. This is the practical ...
Good Gross Margin for a Contract Manufacturer?
Our complete guide to gross margin puts manufacturing in general in the high 20s to high 30s, based on public-company benchmark data. T...
Contribution Margin vs Gross Margin: Key Differences
Contribution Margin vs Gross Margin: Gross margin and contribution margin can sit five, ten, even twenty points apart on the exact same...
Gross Margin vs Markup: A Costly Pricing Mistake
Gross Margin vs Markup: A 30% margin and a 30% markup are not the same price, but on a rushed quote, they get treated like they are, co...
Free Gross Margin Calculator (With Formula)
Enter revenue and cost of goods sold below, and this calculator returns gross profit, gross margin percentage, and the equivalent marku...