Profit is the ultimate goal for any business. Business owners selling goods or services use the unit contribution margin to determine the profit per unit. It is calculated as a percentage or dollar ...

Labor can account for the largest expense of manufacturing products. You should always keep track of your labor cost per unit to make sure that wages are not growing faster than profits. To do this, ...

A method has been developed that allows direct, accurate calculation of recovery efficiency for Claus sulfur-recovery units (SRU). The calculation combines feed-gas data and tail-gas composition to ...

The world of microeconomics and business decision-making hinges upon a key concept: marginal cost. In the simplest terms, marginal cost represents the expense incurred to produce an additional unit of ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...