When sell a miscellaneous article through POS, need to post a certain percentage (eg. 38%) of the sales amount to COGS (cost of goods sales) account.

客户希望销售“其他商品”的时候系统能自动按照售价一定百分比记入销售成本。

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More importantly, the skeptics argued, any current increase in automobile and durable goods sales would be reversed in the future as households absorbed the cost of the subsidies.

怀疑者认为，更重要的是，虽然目前汽车与耐用消费品销售量增加，在未来，家户吸收这些补贴成本的时候，销售量会随之反转。

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Apple, whose iPhone sales account for nearly half the firm's total sales, reported a 40 percent gross margin, or the percentage of sales left after subtracting the cost of goods sold.

苹果公司，其iPhone销量几乎达到公司总销量的一半，报告显示他们也有40%总差额，即减去已售货物消耗后的销售剩余比例。

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Sageworks, a financial information company, analyzed gross margins and cost of sales, or cost of goods sold, for privately owned clothing stores (NAICS code 4481) between 2007 and Oct. 18.

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To answer your question about the value of the annual sales of granite countertops, I think taking the imported value (cost of goods sold, and not including depreciation) and multiplying it by about 3 to 3.5 will give us the most accurate number to use, and that would include the wholesaler and fabricator markups as well.

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Margin Deterioration: Generally, a flower shop's payroll should eat up 30% of sales, and the cost-of-goods-sold another 30%-33%.

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