Concept Introduction:
Net Sales: Sales are the revenues earned by the company from its major operation. It is arrived after deducting sales returns if made by the customers from its gross sales.
Gross Profit: Gross Profit is the profit that is earned by the company after deducting cost of making the product from its sales.
Gross margin ratio: It is arrived by dividing the net sales from the gross profit and predicts the margin on net sales in percentage.
To Determine: The net sales, gross profit and the gross profit margin ratio and interpret the gross margin ratio results in case a.
Explanation of Solution
S. No. | Net sales | Gross profit | Gross profit margin ratio |
a | |||
b | |||
c | |||
d |
Interpretation of gross margin ratio of case a:
Gross margin ratio depicts how much earning is left over with the company after meeting the cost of goods sold. A higher ratio depicts the efficiency of the company in terms of its production cost. In case a, the company’s gross margin ratio is 36.20%. It shows that the company’s cost of goods sold in terms of sales percentage is 63.80%.
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