Allocate Software (LSE:ALLA) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £13.41 Mil (TTM As of May. 2014)

Allocate Software Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Allocate Software Annual Data
	Trend	May05	May06	May07	May08	May09	May10	May11	May12	May13	May14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					14.80	10.54	12.39	13.75	13.41

Allocate Software Semi-Annual Data
	Nov04	May05	Nov05	May06	Nov06	May07	Nov07	May08	Nov08	May09	Nov09	May10	Nov10	May11	Nov11	May12	Nov12	May13	Nov13	May14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															7.00	6.51	7.23	6.64	6.76

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Allocate Software's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

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Allocate Software's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Allocate Software's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Allocate Software 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 May. 2014 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £13.41 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.

Allocate Software  (LSE:ALLA) 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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