(abbreviationROS)FINANCE,ACCOUNTINGa company'sprofitcomparedwith thetotalvalueofitssalesin aparticularperiod:Wehopetoreachat least 10%returnonsalesby nextyear.We do not get ahugereturnonsales- you don't get that inentertainmentretailing.
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return on salesFor example, a sales company's profitability may be most reliably measured as areturnonsales(pre-tax profit as a percent of sales).FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The timing and level of markdowns in a selling season is critical to maximisingreturnonsales.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Now, many of them add their profit margins to the cost, including purchase tax, to get a realreturnonsales.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0That is areturnonsalesof about 20 per cent. and is no small sum.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It made a surplus on funds employed of 20·8 per cent. and earned an 11 per cent.returnonsales.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It is calculated on cost plus purchase tax to obtain for the retailer thereturnonsales.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We accept that many producers will be hard pressed to achieve even an economicreturnonsalesat recent low prices, but good profits were made last year.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/return-on-sales##
