Financial Math Essentials

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Course Outline

  1. Pricing and discounts
  2. VAT calculation
  3. Interest, profit, loss and trading

1. Pricing and discounts

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Selling price: The selling price is the price charged after adding mark-up or other adjustments to the cost price.
  • Discount: A discount is a reduction from the marked or original price applied when items are on sale.

Essential Points

  • To find the selling price, start from the cost price and apply the required pricing relationship given in the question.
  • To work out a discount, calculate how much is taken off the sale price using the stated discount amount or rate.
  • You can calculate 10%, 25%, and 50% discounts on items on sale by taking the stated percentage of the relevant price.
  • The final sale price is the original price minus the discount on that item.

Memory Hook

Discounts mean “take off”: Final price = Original price − (discount % × original price).

2. VAT calculation

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • VAT charged: VAT charged is the tax added to goods on sales, shown as a VAT amount on sales dockets.
  • VAT: VAT is a tax on consumption where the charged amount is recorded separately from the product price.

Essential Points

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Practice quiz preview

1. A shop marks an item at $80 and offers a 25% discount. What is the final sale price?

2. What does a discount mean in pricing?

3. What is VAT charged?

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Pricing — definition?

Setting the selling price of goods.

Discount — role?

Reduces the original price during sales.

VAT — calculation method?

VAT = (VAT amount / product price) × 100.

Interest types — difference?

Simple on principal; compound on principal plus interest.

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