Topic
Costing
What a batch really costs, from landed materials to labour and loss. Pricing, margins and the numbers that keep a small-batch line viable.
- CostingYour accountant wants a number you can defendAt tax time, your accountant needs cost of goods sold and closing inventory. If those numbers come from a reconstruction exercise, they cost you twice: once in accounting fees, and again in the margin they misstate.
- CostingThe four costs makers forget to put in the priceFreight, packaging, the batch that failed and your own hours. A walkthrough of what a bar of soap really costs — and why the wholesale price you set in 2023 stopped working.