Roger Jellison

Roger Jellison
Roger is a seasoned finance and accounting professional with 8 years of public accounting and over 25 years of private company experience in a broad range of industries including manufacturing, distribution, technology (software, hardware, and telecom), construction, and services.

How to calculate interest rate per annum?

To use our interest rate and loan calculator, input your deposit or loan amount, interest rate, compound interest frequency, compounding or loan term, and any estimated monthly payment. Though broadly used across the financial sector, there are several downsides of EAR. The calculation of EAR assumes that the interest rate will be constant ...

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Interest Expense Formula + Calculator

Interest is usually incurred whenever a company finances its assets through debt, because it’s the cost of borrowing money. If your business leases assets from another company, this might also generate an interest expense. If any of this financing involves borrowing money, you’ll need to make interest payments as you repay the ...

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How Effective Tax Rate Is Calculated From Income Statements

Still, you can figure out the effective tax rate by using the rest of the information on the income statement. Along the calculations of determining net income, a company often publicly discloses net income prior to taxes. This calculation, often excluding debt service charges as well, is called Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT). After ...

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Future Value Formula And Calculator

The future value formula helps you calculate the future value of an investment (FV) for a series of regular deposits at a set interest rate (r) for a number of years (t). The future value calculation allows investors to predict, with varying degrees of accuracy, the amount of profit that can be generated by different […]

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How To Calculate Labor Cost: A Step By Step Guide

That number tells you that when you’ve factored in all the other employee expenses, you’re paying your employee $22.80 per hour to produce widgets. This example only deals with one employee, but you can scale it up to accommodate as many employees as you have participating in manufacturing products or providing services. Stated ...

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What Is Contribution Margin?

A good contribution margin is one that will cover both variable and fixed costs, to at least reach the breakeven point. A low contribution margin or average contribution margin may get your company to break even. The variable costs to produce the baseball include direct raw materials, direct labor, and other direct production costs that […]

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