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Tandou (Tandou) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $7.47 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2014)


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What is Tandou Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Tandou's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2014 was $1.02 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2014 was $7.47 Mil.


Tandou Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Tandou's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

* 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.

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Tandou Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Tandou Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.55 5.44 7.64 7.92 7.48

Tandou Semi-Annual Data
Jun05 Dec05 Jun06 Dec06 Jun07 Dec07 Jun08 Dec08 Jun09 Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.07 6.96 0.98 6.45 1.02

Competitive Comparison of Tandou's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Farm Products subindustry, Tandou's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Tandou's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Tandou's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Tandou's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Tandou 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. 2014 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $7.47 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.


Tandou  (OTCPK:TDUFF) 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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Tandou (Tandou) Business Description

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Tandou Ltd is an Australia based company produces and sells irrigated cotton and cereal crops. Business activity of the firm is operated with two segments namely Farming and Water Operations. The Farming operation comprises of the production of crops (upland cotton and cereal) for sale in Australian and international markets as well as pastoral activities relating to sheep and cattle. The Water operation segment includes the trading of permanent water entitlements and temporary water allocations. In addition, it is also involved in the Production of livestock at Tandou Farm. Tandou derives the majority of revenue from the farming segment.

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