Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.______________ GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY M.B.A -Ist SEMESTER–EXAMINATION –JUNE- 2012 Subject code: 810001 Subject Name: Accounting for Managers (AFM) Time: 02:30 pm – 05:30 pm Date: 07/06/2012 Total Marks: 70 Instructions: 1. Attempt all questions. 2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary. 3. Figures to the right indicate full marks. Q.1 (a) “Financial Statements are the most important part of financial reporting” 07 Discuss the above
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strategies around the concept of the product life cycle--the idea that after introduction‚ products inevitably follow a course of growth‚ maturity‚ and decline. It doesn’t have to be that way‚ says Harvard Business School marketing professor Youngme Moon. By positioning their products in unexpected ways‚ companies can change how customers mentally categorize them. In doing so‚ they can shift products lodged in the maturity phase back--and catapult new products forward--into the growth phase. The author
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Promotion Strategy Advertising VAIO C Series uses advertising to communicate to consumers. In addition‚ it classifies its segmentation to communicate directly with each ages or lifestyles of consumers. Message on advertising must classify to depend on target group because they are different such as teenager or young. Those target groups want notebook to reflect to their lifestyles. Using message to make recognition about functional‚ smart‚ cool‚ and modern is available for teenage or young. As
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copycat brand to product leader? There are three main factors that lead product to be cutting edge product. That comes under LEE’S “new management” top to bottom strategy for the entire company. The goal he wanted Samsung to become a premier brand that would dethrone sony as the biggest consumer electronics firm in the world. Factors that used under “new management” are: 1. New Product Development. 2. Product “Test Marketing”. 3. Positioning and commercialization New Product Development: Hired
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RETAIL EVOLUTION 1) Why are retail life cycles becoming shorter? The retail life cycle is becoming shorter because many products in industries are revitalized by product differentiation and market segmentation. The time you need in order to sell your products on a market and recover your investments shrinks therefore companies reassess the product life cycle costs. There are more and more aggressive competitors that mean it is essential for companies to constantly innovate.
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Validity of the Product Life Cycle Authors: Rolando Polli and Victor Cook Source: The Journal of Business‚ Vol. 42‚ No. 4 (Oct.‚ 1969)‚ pp. 385-400 In this article‚ Rolando Polli and Victor Cook state that although the product life has been widely discussed‚ it hasn’t been systematically tested as a model of sales behavior. The aim is to develop an operational model of the product life cycle‚ to determine the statistics for evaluating the model and to show the conclusion of the tests that
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Product Life Cycle Product life cycle is the stages through which a product or its category bypasses. From its introduction to the marketing‚ growth‚ maturity to its decline or reduce in demand in the market. Not all products reach this final stage‚ some continue to grow and some rise and fall There is no set time period for the PLC and the length of each stage may vary. One product’s entire life cycle could be over in a few months. Another product could last for years. Also‚ the Introduction stage
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Product Life Cycle Cost Management Harpreet Shoker BUSN319 Marketing July 26‚ 2010 Brown Case Study What is PLC Cost Management? Product life cycle management is looking at the cost of a product from the beginning to the end of the product. It looks at all the elements of the cost and where spending is taking place at which part of the product (Roubal 2010). According to Roubal( 2010)‚“Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Methodology estimates costs of products incurred during his whole life cycle”
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Introduction: The BCG Matrix and the Product Life Cycle are two important tools that relate to different aspects of a product’s performance: • The BCG looks at market share and market growth and how they impact on cash usage and generation. • The PLC looks at sales/revenues over time and levels of profitability. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix Businesses must keep their product offerings relevant and profitable to stay in operation. The Boston Consulting Group developed a tool‚ called
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Sony Corporation | | Native name | ソニー株式会社 | Type | Public | Traded as | TYO: 6758 NYSE: SNE | Industry | Conglomerate | Founded | 7 May 1946[1] | Founder(s) | Masaru Ibuka Akio Morita | Headquarters | Minato‚ Tokyo‚ Japan | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Sir Howard Stringer (Chairman of the Board) Kazuo Hirai (President & CEO) | Products | Consumer electronics Semiconductors Video games Media/Entertainment Computer hardware Telecom equipment | Services
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