View source for Sales, Inventory, Profitability Analysis

This screen allows you to run a '''profitability report for a product''' or a set of products by analyzing the gross profits from sales, the volume of sales, and the average value of your inventory.  

To access this report generation screen, navigate as follows:
 * From the Main Navigation screen,
 * Click: Financials Icon > Reports Tab
 * In the Inventory section,
 * Click: Sales, Inventory Profitability Analysis -- link to report page.

Then, fill in the form:

 * Enter the Product ID, or the first part of the ID for a set of products, to be analyzed.  If you
     leave this blank the analysis is performed for all products that were sold in the period.
 * Enter a specified date range or a pre-configured fiscal time period.  You may
     manually enter the "From" and "Thru" dates or search for the dates using the 
     [[calendar widget]], or you may also use a fiscal time period by selecting it from
     the drop down menu.  
 * Select the Fiscal Type (for example, "Actual" or "Budgeted") from the drop down
     menu, to run the profitability analysis for actual results or for the budgets and
     forecasts.  
 * Click: [Run] button -- to run the profitability analysis for return on equity (ROE)  

Clicking the [Return to Reports] button will take you back to the [[Reports Main Screen]].

The report table that is produced includes these data items for each product in the report:

* Product ID  	
* Sales Volume -- the revenue from sales
* COGS -- cost of goods sold
* Gross Profit -- revenue minus COGS
* Beginning Inventory  	
* Ending Inventory  	
* Average Inventory -- part of the assets
* Turnover -- Sales divided by Assets
* Annualized Turnover  	
* Profitability Ratio -- profit margin divided by equity

This report is based on a metric similar to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont_analysis The Du Pont formula] of profitability analysis, but in this case the report uses gross profit margin for a particular set of products, and turns for that product inventory. Thus, the report is for incremental gross return on inventory assets, a measure of relative product performance.