Unit 3: Financial management

Cards (14)

  • profit
    the difference between the revenue of a business and its total cost
  • revenue
    a measure of the income received from an organisation's activities
  • profit calculation
    profit = revenue - cost
  • ways of describing revenue
    income
    total revenue
    sales revenue
    sales turnover
    sales
    turnover
  • increasing profit
    increasing sales revenue / lowering costs
  • total revenue calculation
    total revenue = price * quantity
  • total cost calculation
    total cost = fixed cost + variable cost
  • uses of cost and output
    calculates financial implications of changing the level of output
  • fixed cost

    costs that don't vary directly with output in the short run (rent)
  • variable cost
    costs that vary directly with output in the short run (raw materials)
  • examples of fixed costs

    rent and rates
    salary
    administration
    vehicles
    marketing
    lighting and heating
  • examples of variable costs

    raw materials
    wages
  • breakeven output
    the level of output at which total sales revenue is equal to cost of production
  • how to work out breakeven output
    a table
    a formula
    a graph