Revenue, cost and gross margin
Understand what gross margin means, how it differs from revenue, and how discounts change it.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 30 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Calculate gross profit and gross margin from revenue and cost
- Explain why higher revenue doesn't always mean more profit
- Work out the effect of a discount on margin
- Tell margin apart from markup
Course outline
- 1.Revenue, cost and gross marginVideo · 1 min
- 2.Margin, markup and discountsLesson · 12 min
- 3.Fixed costs, variable costs and break-evenLesson · 14 min
- 4.Reading a product profit reportLesson · 12 min
- 5.Revenue, cost and gross margin: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Revenue, cost and gross margin: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Final exam3 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- General business-finance fundamentals (revenue, cost, gross margin, budgets)
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