===== Why do I have zero COGS? Why do I have zero costs of goods sold? =====

Offtoa uses many of your stated assumptions to compute the COGS, so any of these could cause COGS on your income statement to be zero:

  - Raw Materials. You might have no raw materials. On the menu, select assumptions/costs/raw materials. This might be perfectly valid if you are a software company or a service company, for example. This is not acceptable if you are in manufacturing, wholesale, or retail industries.
  - Price of Raw Materials. The prices you pay for all your raw materials could be zero. On the menu, select assumptions/costs/raw materials.
  - No Raw Materials Used in Your Products. You may have indicated that no raw materials are being used in your products. On the menu, select assumptions/costs/cost of goods sold.
  - Not selling any products. If you don't sell any products during this period, you will not have any COGS.

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