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English translation: Gross Profit

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French term or phrase:	contribution commerciale
English translation:	Gross Profit
Entered by:	Adam Deutsch

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20:25 Feb 23, 2008

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Bus/Financial - Accounting / income statements

French term or phrase: contribution commerciale

This occurs in the context of an interactive lesson on income statements. The sentence in which it occurs is the following:

Le résultat d’exploitation du Groupe se compose du chiffre d’affaire, de la contribution commerciale, de la marge opérationnelle et du résultat d’exploitation.

Adam Deutsch KudoZ activity Questions: 54 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (7 closed without grading) Answers: 98
Local time: 11:45

Contribution Margin or Gross Profit

Explanation:
contribution commerciale = ventes (ciffre d´affaires) moins coût des ventes.
gross profit = sales minus all costs directly related to those sales.

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windblast
Portugal
Local time: 16:45

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Thanks to everybody for this. By rights, I guess Fourth should have got the points, but he put his answer in the form of a note.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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gross profit

rkillings

Contribution Margin or Gross Profit

windblast

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Contribution Margin or Gross Profit

Explanation:
contribution commerciale = ventes (ciffre d´affaires) moins coût des ventes.
gross profit = sales minus all costs directly related to those sales.

Reference: http://www.dynamicbusinessplan.com/answer.asp?ID=20
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_profit

windblast
Portugal
Local time: 16:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks to everybody for this. By rights, I guess Fourth should have got the points, but he put his answer in the form of a note.

1 hr confidence:

gross profit

Explanation:
= sales less cost of sales. Give the points to windblast.

Read the sentence as, "The components of operating profit or loss are sales, gross profit on sales, gross operating profit, and (net) operating profit". It is odd to have operating profit being a component of itself, but this is French logic. Do not say "margin", which in English is usually reserved for the amount expressed as a percentage of the denominator.

IFRS now no longer identify any particular part of profit or loss as "operating", but old habits die hard.

rkillings
United States
Local time: 08:45
Specializes in field
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English
PRO pts in category: 287

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Feb 28, 2008 - Changes made by Adam Deutsch:
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