Gross profit rate
Gross profit rate is a profitability ratio that indicates how well net sales cover administrative and selling expenses.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Gross profit rate. A profitability ratio that indicates how well net sales cover administrative and selling expenses.
Related concepts
- Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.
