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Standard & Light Versions |
Advanced & Extra-Large Versions |
Comments |
| Products |
| Product line |
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Several products, optionally organized in product families |
| Summary worksheet for each product |
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Includes a separate worksheet for each product that summarizes results |
| Cost of Goods and Gross Margin |
| Cost of Goods |
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Tracks cost of goods and Cogs per unit sold and as a percentage of revenue |
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Tracks Cogs types (material, labor, overhead) per unit sold |
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Tracks Cogs as fixed cost (such as cost of fixed investments) |
| Royalties paid |
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Track royalties paid on revenue, units sold, and royalties not proportional to sales (such as progress payments) |
| Gross Margin |
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Computes gross margin amount and percent |
| Operating Expense and Contribution Margin |
| Marketing expense |
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Tracks marketing headcount for each product |
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Tracks marketing program expenses associated with each product, for several programs whose names you specify |
| Product development expense |
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- Product development teams
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Track how much product development cost of a product comes from each team |
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Tracks engineering program expenses associated with each product, for several programs you specify. |
- Product development IT / technical overhead
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Product development overhead account for IT, equipment etc. |
| Customer support expense |
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Allocates cost of customer support calls to products |
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Tracks distribution of support calls by staff time consumed. Tracking staff time yields better metrics than tracking calls.
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Tracks support headcount and staff utilization rate |
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Tracks support calls by support issues (e.g. installation, maintenance), to helps zero in on problems for specific products
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| Job levels |
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Tracks employees in each department by job/pay levels |
| Overhead expense |
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Applies a labor overhead rate to all departments |
| Time |
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You choose start date, time grain (such as quarters, years), and time range for the analysis. Start time can be changed
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| Operating margin |
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Computes operating margin amounts and percent for each product in each time period |