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Is This Reading Unusual Calculator

The best month in eight was 52. It sits 2.41 sigma from the average, and this process normally runs between 33.5 and...

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Regression to the Mean Calculator

Eight months averaging 43.75. The best of them was 52. Expect about 48 next month. Nothing has to happen for that fall....

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Overhead Recovery Rate Calculator

A hundred and twenty thousand of overhead, budgeted over six thousand chargeable hours. Twenty pounds an hour, built into every quote. Sell...

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Work in Progress and Lead Time Calculator

Eighteen jobs open, six finished a week. That is a three week lead time. Halve the work open and the wait halves....

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Revenue Up, Profit Down Calculator

Revenue up seventeen and a half per cent. Profit down two point nine. Nobody did anything wrong, and the profit still fell....

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Finish or Stop Calculator

An eighteen thousand pound job. Eleven thousand already spent, six thousand invoiced, nine thousand left to spend. Finish it and the job...

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Refund and Chargeback Cost Calculator

A good sale earns sixty-five. A disputed one loses eighty. So the distance between the two outcomes is a hundred and forty-five,...

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Rework and Snagging Cost Calculator

Going back to put a job right cost a hundred and eighty in materials and eight hours. Four hundred and eighty-four pounds’...

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Discount Stacking and Rebate Calculator

Twenty per cent off, then ten off what is left, then five off what is left of that. Written down that looks...

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Franchise Fee and Royalty Calculator

Six per cent royalty and two per cent marketing on four hundred thousand of turnover is thirty-two thousand a year. At a...

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