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Overview

Duration

2 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Break-Even Analysis Unlocked: How to Understand the Profit and Loss Statement
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate upon completion
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Break-Even Analysis Unlocked: How to Understand the Profit and Loss Statement
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • On this course, you’ll have the opportunity to cover everything that a comprehensive break-even analysis entails
  • You’ll have the chance to learn how to understand the different classifications of cost and how they relate to business stability
  • You’ll also find out how to evaluate the feasibility of business ideas and their potential for success by calculating and applying the break-even point, or BEP
  • This course will teach you what you need to know about the P&L statement – from sources of income and sales and seasonality to the all-important bottom line: net profitability
  • This course explores the principles of margin of safety and profit, and look at the output for required profit
  • You’ll also carry out exercises on break-even analysis using formulas and templates, and be introduced to operational gearing (or operational leverage) – the relationship between a firm’s fixed and variable costs
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Break-Even Analysis Unlocked: How to Understand the Profit and Loss Statement
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Curriculum

Cost, profit and breaking even

Getting started

Introducing cost

Exploring the concept of break-even

Summary and reflection

Operational gearing

Welcome to Week 2

Margin of safety and profit

Introducing operational gearing

Summary and reflection

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