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About Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) Expense Benchmarks

SG&A in Public Company Financials

Use D&B Hoovers and Mergent Online to access public company financials specifically US SEC 10K reports.   Consolidated SG & A Expenses are provided and located in the Income Statement

  • D&B Hoovers offers Efficiency Ratios such as Revenue/Employee, Operating Income/Employee and a few others
  • Mergent only provides Asset Management Turnover ratios.

Company financial files with the US SEC and other regulators

CFO magazine's Metric of the Month

"Metric of the Month" featured in CFO.COM and authored by Perry D. Wiggins provides sample benchmark costs for finance, accounting and other related functions. To locate specific cost metrics, apply the following search:

  • Use Advanced Google Search 
    • All words: cost FTE  (can add terms such as "finance" "accounting"
    • Exact phrase: metric of the month
    • Domain: .cfo.com

Company Advertising & Media Spend

Accounting & Tax Guide