"a gross profit" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the total profit before any expenses are deducted. For example, "The company was delighted to report a gross profit of $50,000 last quarter."
Because of the distortion caused by fixed expenses, companies often make poor profitability decisions using a gross profit percentage.
It demonstrates the case where using a gross profit objective, with deterministic transport demand is considerably less profitable than using a gross-profit-per-day objective, with stochastic transport demand.
Says Mir about Clutter, they're "not only profitable on every individual customer, but we're producing a gross profit in every single city we operate in".
The company's goal is to achieve a gross profit margin of 4.5percentt by 2003.
For us, that means a gross profit margin of at least 50%.
The numbers indicate that Ciena reported a gross profit of $36.8 million.
The second problem is the use of a gross-profit-per-day objective, rather than a gross-profit one; since time varies considerably from one alternative ship voyage to another.
In tramp cargo transportation, as an example, the current policy is to select for each ship the cargo mix which contributes more to a gross-profit objective, assuming deterministic cargo transport demand.
This action influences few cost and revenue items plus cargo handling days, while a gross-profit-per-day objective influences all cost and revenue items plus all voyage days, including sailing and waiting days.
Remember that the model has a gross-profit-per-day objective which requires additional algorithms and contains all possible shipping elements and charter party clauses which require additional constraints.
In tramp cargo transportation, as an example, the current policy is to select for each transport unit the cargo mix which contributes more to a gross-profit objective, assuming deterministic cargo transport demand.
