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Cost of Goods Sold - COGS
Investing Lesson 4 - Analyzing an Income Statement
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• Introduction
• Income Statement
• Revenue / sales
• Cost of Goods Sold
• Gross profit
• Gross margin
• The first three lines
• Operating Expenses
• R&D Expense
• SG&A Expense
• Goodwill Charges
• Extraordinary Events
• Accounting for extraordinary events
• Oper. income/margin
• Interest income and expense
• Interest coverage ratio
• Depreciation expense
• Accum. Depreciation
• Straight-line Method
• Accelerated and Sum of the Years' Digits Method
• Dbl Declining Balance
• Comparing Depr. Mths
• EBITDA
• Income taxes
• Minority Interests - cost, equity, and consolidated methods
• Unreported earnings
• Continuing operations
• Accounting changes
• Preferred dividends
• Net income applicable to common shares
• Net profit margin
• Basic vs. Diluted EPS
• Hiding share dilution
• Share repurchases
• Return on Equity- ROE
• Asset turnover
• Return on Assets- ROA
• Projecting earnings
• Formulas & Calculations
• Putting it together

• Segment 2

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• Investing Lesson 2
• Investing Lesson 3
• More Lessons
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• What is Cost of Goods Sold COGS

Cost of Revenue, Cost of Sales, Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
Cost of goods sold (COGS for short) is the expense a company incurred in order to manufacture, create, or sell a product.  It includes the purchase price of the raw material as well as the expenses of turning it into a product.  Cost of goods sold (COGS) is also known as cost of revenue or cost of sales.

Going back to our Pizza Parlor example, your cost of goods sold (COGS) include the amount of money you spent purchasing items such as flour and tomato sauce.
 

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