Nippon Paper Group, (TSE:3893) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : 円203,855 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2012)

Nippon Paper Group, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Nippon Paper Group, Annual Data
	Trend	Mar03	Mar04	Mar05	Mar06	Mar07	Mar08	Mar09	Mar10	Mar11	Mar12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					209,381.00	209,721.00	-	-	202,259.00

Competitive Comparison of Nippon Paper Group,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

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Nippon Paper Group,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

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Nippon Paper Group, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2012 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was 円203,855 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Nippon Paper Group,  (TSE:3893) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.

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