Break-Even Analysis & Profit Margins for Small Businesses

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About Course

Knowing how many sales you need to cover your costs, and how much profit each sale really makes, is essential for pricing and planning. This course explains fixed and variable costs, contribution, break-even, margin of safety, and the difference between margin and mark-up, with worked examples.

This course gives general business guidance and is not financial or tax advice.

What Will You Learn?

  • Separate fixed and variable costs
  • Calculate contribution and break-even
  • Use margin of safety to judge risk
  • Avoid confusing margin with mark-up

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Costs and contribution
  • Break-even and margin of safety
  • Margin, mark-up and pricing

Sources & Further Reading
The official guidance this course is based on.

Final Assessment

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