COGS CALCULATOR
COGS UK Seller Fee Calculator
Work out exactly what the goods you sold cost you, and what that leaves you as gross profit, with a free calculator and a downloadable Excel workbook.
Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Calculator
COGS is what it cost you to buy or make the goods you actually sold in a period. The formula: opening inventory plus purchases and direct costs, minus closing inventory. Type your figures and the result updates as you go.
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Fill in the three inventory figures to see your COGS.
Gross profit – Gross margin –
Closing inventory is larger than opening inventory plus purchases, which makes COGS negative. Worth checking the figures: the commonest causes are a stock count valued at selling price instead of cost, or purchases missing from the period.
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The workbook version goes further than the widget: it splits purchases into stock, carriage inwards and direct labour, and adds a 12-month tracker that carries each month's closing inventory forward and watches your gross margin across the year.
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