CUSTOMER PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS: CHALLENGES AND NEW DIRECTIONS Summary This article presents the concept of modifying cost accounting system in order to provide measurements from a customer profitability viewpoint. Most management accounting systems focus on products‚ departments or geographical areas‚ which have little to do with customers. A questionnaire was sent to marketing managers and marketing controllers and interviews with respondents. Much of this article draws on qualitative responses
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CUSTOMER PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS Customer profitability analysis (CPA) can be defined as a method used to compare the costs of all the activities used to support a customer or a customer group with the revenue generated by that customer or customer group. It is the analysis of the revenue and costs that relates to the customers which can be determined by considering the similarities and differences in customers’ buying behaviours and customer preferences. From the definition‚ it shows three features
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Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis Customer profitability analysis Topic Gateway Series No. 55 1 Prepared by Jasmin Harvey and Technical Information Service January 2009 Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis About Topic Gateways Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition‚ a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they
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A customer profitability analysis is an evaluation process that focuses on assigning costs and revenues to segments of the customer base‚ instead of assigning revenues and costs to the actual products‚ or the units or departments that compose the corporate structure of the producer. Approaching profitability from this angle can sometimes provide valuable insights into how each step of the process of designing‚ manufacturing‚ and ultimately selling a good or service incurs cost and generates revenue
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in determining the cost of serving customers and as a basis for evaluating the profitabilty of a specific customer or group of customers. Why is this important? Most managers agree that 80% of their profits come from the top 20% of their customers and most important‚ the bottom 20% of their customers are unprofitable. For example‚ to compete with Walmart‚Best Buy works hard to attract profitable customers and equally hard to discourage the unprofitable customers which those that are price shopping
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Group Assignment (Winter 2014) Pilgrim Bank (A): Customer Profitability Pilgrim Bank (A) is a case that analyzes customer profitability in a retail banking setting. It explores a business phenomenon common to the retail banking industry and‚ within this context‚ acquaints you with the types of managerial questions that can be made by data analysis. As a recently hired analyst‚ Alan Green (your group’s role) has data on a sample of customers and must make recommendations about whether the bank
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Importance of Analyzing Customer Profitability BADM 603 July 30‚ 2007 Every for-profit business has one main goal: to maximize profits by selling as much of its products or services to as many customers as possible. It seems logical to think that the more customers that a business has‚ the more profitable the company will be. However‚ business managers should also be aware that some customers are more profitable to the company than others. Managers should analyze their customers to determine those
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Successful CRM: Turning Customer Loyalty into Profitability By Bob Thompson CEO‚ CustomerThink Corporation Founder‚ CRMGuru.com [pic] October 2004 Compliments of: [pic] Copyright © 2004 RightNow Technologies. All Rights Reserved. Executive Summary Customer relationship management (CRM) gained recognition in the mid-1990s‚ primarily driven by its perception as information technology (IT). However‚ not enough attention has been given to the fundamental drivers of CRM success:
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Mindy’s Sections Profitability BJB intends to apply a six sigma approach to improving profitability in the innovative CD changers. Using such tools provided through this approach will lead to major cost reduction and quality improvements that will result in an increase in profitability. The approach will involve measuring capability of processes to produce services and products that remain free of defect. Experts at BJB will analyze standard deviation‚ short term performance data‚ and critical
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Individual Research Report “Managing Operations for Customer Satisfaction and Enhanced Profitability” Introduction The role of operations management is the production of goods and services and to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the operation process‚ that means use as little resource as needed and meet the customer requirements. Moreover‚ it is converts inputs (in the forms of materials‚ labour and energy) into outputs (in the form of goods and services) and aims to increase the
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