powerOne Personal v2.0 Operating Instructions

Business Computations
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Business Computations
A series of business computations exist. Included are templates to
perform percent change, profit margin, discount, markup, sales tax and
tip computations.
Discount
This template performs discount computations:
• Price: current price.
• Sales Price: sales price.
• Discount%: percentage discount.
For example, a 30% discount would be entered as “30”.
Markup
This template performs markup computations:
• Method: computation based on
price or cost. Profit margin
computations are based on price;
percent change computations are
based on cost.
• Cost: the cost to manufacture or
purchase.
• Price: the selling or resale price.
• Markup%: the markup expressed as a percentage. For example,
an 8.125% change would be entered as “8.125”. A positive value
represents an increase while a negative one represents a decrease.
Percent Change
This template performs percentage change computations with one or
more compounding periods: