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Profitability
The ledger says the company made 4.2 million. This says which region, which range and which channel it came from — and where the margin reverses.
In Accounting → Projects & Margin · 8 screens
| Screen | Kind | What it is | Columns | Fields | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contribution Margin | Read-only list | The ladder, cut by whatever you ask for. Rows that reverse between gross margin and full margin are the finding this module exists to produce. | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Profitability Segments | Read-only list | The intersection of the characteristics somebody wants to cut by. Derived when a document is posted, not typed — which is what makes profitability analysis complete. | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Profitability Lines | Read-only list | Long rather than wide — one row per value field — because the set of value fields is configuration and a wide table would need a migration for every new rebate type. | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Profitability Characteristics | List | What you may cut by. A characteristic that has to be typed is one that is blank on eighty per cent of the rows, which is why each names where it is read from. | 8 | 11 | 0 |
| Value Fields | List | What a segment carries instead of accounts. The margin level is what makes the report a ladder rather than a list. | 10 | 14 | 0 |
| Derivation Rules | List | What fills in the characteristics the documents do not carry — a sales region derived from the customer’s country being the usual case. | 9 | 12 | 0 |
| Margin Schemes | List | A named ladder, held as data so a company can define "margin after logistics" without a code change. | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Margin Levels | List | Each level is what is left after one more class of cost. Reading down them is how a customer that looked profitable stops being one. | 5 | 7 | 0 |