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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Determinants of Earnings Improving someone’s success in the labour market is a main objective of both family and policy makers‚ especially those with low earning in recent years. In the classic view of labour earning‚ we assume that the skills of individuals are the dominant factor to determine the earnings’ level. However‚ the recent year study manifests multiple factors have been weighed more than before. To illustrate this new situation‚ it believes that individuals’ successes in labour
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STUDY OF RETAINED EARNINGS OF LUPIN v/s WYETH INTRODUCTION Managing a company’s operations‚ marketing and sales activities and expense management are but a few of the decisions that management has to deal with. After it has made a profit the company will then need to decide what to do with those profits. Among the options for using profits are: operations‚ returning cash to shareholders‚ or keeping cash in reserve for future use Retained earnings represent the amount a company has left after
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Overview of Quality of Earnings - Some Guiding Principles/Framework The issue of earnings quality arises because of the cost/benefit trade off between cash accounting and accrual accounting. For our purposes‚ we want reported earnings to do two things: 1) to accurately represent current operating performance 2) to aid in accurately forecasting future operating performance These requirements for high-quality earnings mean that the reported earnings amounts for a particular period
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Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) is often used for assessing the company’s stock price. P/E is determined by first calculating the earnings per shares (EPS)‚ which is the post-tax profits divides by the number of shares (Figure 1). Trailing P/E is equal to current market share price divided by trailing earnings per share for the past 12 months‚ whereas forward P/E is equal to current share price divided by expected earnings per shares for the next 12 months or next full-year fiscal period (http://www
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creative and innovative marketing strategies to outperform its rivals. Background and Case Summary A bicycle tour in Europe combined with an unquenchable passion for Belgian-style home brewing‚ lead Jeff Lebesch to found the nation’s third largest craft brewery‚ New Belgium Brewing (NBB). In 1991‚ the start-up company began commercial operations in the basement of Jeff and his former wife‚ Kim Jordan’s Ft. Collins‚ Colorado home. Within four years‚ the operation outgrew the tiny basement and moved
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behavior---------------------------------------3 3 Evaluation of profitability analysis---------------------------------4 4 Conclusion and recommendation----------------------------------8 References--------------------------------------------------------------------9 Executive summary This report provides an evaluation of Woolworths in respect of ethical behavior and profitability analysis to fulfill an investor’s ethical requirement. The investigation
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fact these three namely liquidity‚ profitability and safety are the main objectives of a monetary policy. Banks have to earn profits because if they don’t‚ they would not work as all the shareholders would sell off the shares if proper dividends are not earned. Hence they have to earn profits for their shareholders and at the same time satisfy the withdrawal needs of its customers. The main problem here comes is sticking the balance between liquidity and profitability as both contradict each other. This
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Profitability Ratios Profitability ratios measure two aspects of a corporation’s profits: (1) those elements of operations that contribute to profit and (2) the relationship of profit to total investment and investment by stockholders. The first group of profitability ratios [gross profit (or gross margin) percentage‚ operating margin percentage‚ and net profit margin percentage] expresses income statement elements as percentages of net sales. The second group of profitability ratios (return on
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Honors April 5‚ 2011 Coors Kidnapping Case Study Adolph Coors III was born on January 12‚ 1916 in New Hampshire. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy for High School‚ then fallowed in his father’s footsteps and attended Cornell University in upstate New York‚ where his brother Joseph would attend only a few years later. During his time at Cornell‚ Coors became the president of the Quill and Dagger Chapter‚ and was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. In his youth‚ Coors was a very good skier
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