The RetLivo Editorial Desk
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Behind RetLivo sits a small editorial team. It builds a profit margin calculator and writes the supporting articles, which is why the two rarely disagree.
Coverage sticks to Profit Calculator. In practice it works out profit margin, markup and selling price from a cost and a target margin, reporting gross and net figures as it goes. Typical runs through it include pricing a product from its cost, checking the margin on a sale price and finding the selling price for a target margin.
Before anything is published it is reviewed for correctness of method and for tone. Nothing here should read as medical, financial or legal advice; where a subject touches those areas the article limits itself to the calculation.
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