Find your profit within reach
Enter where your business stands today, then explore what's possible. The numbers move as you do. Use any period you like — a month, a quarter, or a year — just keep every figure on the same period basis.
Split your sales into up to three products or services, each with its own price, number sold, and cost. Your steady costs (rent, office help, insurance) are shared by the whole business, so you enter them once at the bottom.
| The levers | Where You Are | Where You Could Be | Your Results |
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What each product or service earns for you
Based on where you are now. "Keeps" means what's left from each sale after paying for that sale itself, before your steady costs.
The price and volume trade-off
A quick gut-check based on today's numbers — see both sides before you touch your prices.
A small move in price changes profit more than most owners expect, in both directions. This is the one to think through before you decide.
Ideas to explore when you spot an opportunity
- Win a few more customers — referrals, a simple offer, showing up where they already are.
- Keep the ones you have — even a small drop in customers lost adds up fast.
- Bring them back more often — a reminder, a reason to return, a loyalty nudge.
- Raise the average sale — a better mix, a thoughtful add-on, or a gentle price move.
- Lift your margin — trim what each sale costs without cutting quality.
- Trim steady costs — worth a look, but usually after you've explored growing the top line.
A reminder from decades of helping businesses grow: don't lead with cost-cutting — the biggest wins usually come from selling a little smarter.
Want to see what this could look like for your business?
This app gives you a good first look. When we sit down with an owner, we go further: where your customers come from, how often they come back, and what each one is worth. Then we turn the best ideas into a plan you can follow. If you'd like a second set of eyes on your numbers, we'd be glad to take a look. There's no charge for the conversation.
About this tool
What this is. The Profit Improvement Planner is an illustration and planning tool provided free of charge by Scholl & Arensdorf, LLP. It performs arithmetic on figures you enter and displays the results so you can explore how changes to price, volume, cost and overhead might affect your profit.
Illustration only
All output is hypothetical and is generated solely from the figures you enter. It is not a prediction, projection, forecast, valuation or guarantee of any result. Actual results will differ, and the tool does not account for taxes, financing, competition, seasonality, capacity, customer behavior or any other factor outside the inputs it asks for.
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Questions?
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Welcome to the Profit Improvement Planner
Most owners have a feeling about where their money goes. Fewer have a quick way to test it. That’s what this is.
Four numbers drive almost every business: what you charge, how many you sell, what each one costs you, and your overhead. Put your own in, then nudge them and watch what happens to the profit you keep.
Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. Your numbers stay in your browser — we never see them.
Give it five minutes. You may be surprised how little has to move.