Exception reports come in many flavors, but the following Contribution Profit (CP) example should illustrate the basic concept and its usefulness. CP is defined as the incremental money generated after selling an item and deducting the variable costs associated with that item. It’s essentially the money the company has left over after the sale of the item, which goes to pay for the fixed costs of the business and, ideally after that, contributes a profit. There is a CP Exception report that lists the top ten CP negative products (ones that did not generate a profit) within a category for the
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