6.4 Operating Performance
6.4.1 Sales deductions
Sales related costs which are not assignable to a specific sales order. For example:
· Trade (early payment) discounts
· Collection expenses
· Yearend posting if increase of provisions for doubtful debts
· Yearend posting if increase of warranty provisions
· General rebates or discounts which may not be assignable to individual orders
Sales reduced by sales deductions are defined as Net Sales. Without this deduction they are Gross Sales.
6.4.2 Change in inventory
Relevant only for Metrohm production sites if P&L is in TCF-(TotalCostFormat) and not COS-(CostOfSales)format.
Change in inventory is the difference between year-end ending inventory (previous year) and the current period's
YTD ending inventory of semi-finished and finished goods and service not yet invoiced. These accounts include all
possible costs for materials or expenses for already generated output not yet invoiced. Not yet invoiced = still in
stock. Change in Inventory should be posted against stock increase/decrease if subsidiary complies with the profit
and loss statement format of cost-summary- (=total cost accounting-, =total expenditure-) method.
The majority of Metrohm Group companies utilize the P&L sales-cost format. This method records cost of goods sold
by adjusting the stock account and the cost of goods sold account for the value of the inventory sold or consumed in
the year. Under the Cost of Sales formate, the change in inventory account is not used at all. The value of increasing
or decreasing inventory is based on the purchase price including all relevant incidental charges (=landed costs).
6.5 Cost of Sales
In the income statement presentation, the cost of sales is subtracted from revenues to arrive at the gross profit
(=gross margin) of a business.
6.5.1 Purchase Price Materials
This account group is only utilized by production sites. These accounts are provided in order to comply with
Metrohm’s accounting standard:
A. 40’000 PURCHASE MATERIALS 3RD PARTY
B. 40’400 PURCHASE SUPPLIES
C. 40’500 PURCHASE MATERIALS METROHM GROUP COMPANIES
D. 40’600 SUBCONTRACTORS PRODUCTION