WorksheetFree to print
Costing sheet
The cost of one unit, your monthly costs, break-even and price.
How to use it
Before you write
One sheet per product
Start with your best seller.
Use slips, not memory
Collect a week of receipts first if you can.
Include the small costs
Transport, packaging, gas and airtime are the ones people forget.
Put in a wage for yourself
Decide a monthly amount and write it in section B.
Prints on one A4 page. Your phone can also save it as a PDF from the print screen. Nothing you write is sent to ADA.
Product or service
One batch makes (units)
A. What goes into one batch
Item (stock, materials, transport, packaging, gas)Cost N$
Total for the batch
Cost of one unit (total ÷ units)
B. What you pay every month anyway
Monthly cost (rent or stand, airtime, electricity, wages, loan)Cost N$
Your own wage
Total each month, including your wage
C. Break-even
Price of one unit
Minus cost of one unit
= left from each one
Total each month ÷ left from each one = units to sell a month
÷ selling days = units a day
D. Try another price
New price
= left from each one
Units to sell a day
If the business cannot pay your wage, it is not making a profit. It is using your time for free.
Tell us what you are trying to decide.
You do not need a business plan to talk to us. Say what the business is, what you want from it and what is in the way. A Business Check-up costs N$199 and comes off any other service you book within 30 days.