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Pricing for Profitability: Activity-Based Pricing for Competitive Advantage by John L. Daly β€” book cover

Pricing for Profitability: Activity-Based Pricing for Competitive Advantage

by John L. Daly
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Overview

Accurate pricing for improved profit

When pricing a product, you have to get it right. Overpricing will lead to lost sales that would have been profitable at a lower price, while underpricing leads to sales that bring revenue without profit. Activity-based pricing is a new paradigm for improving profitability by reducing the occurrence of pricing mistakes while placing less emphasis on increasing revenue and more on improving profits. Pricing for Profitability will help any company set prices that are both attractive to buyers and profitable for the company.

Activity-based pricing will help you:

  • Establish prices based on solid knowledge of customer demand and product cost
  • Stop unintentionally pricing products at a loss
  • Determine how much of a price is profit
  • Use superior financial knowledge to generate superior financial return

Synopsis

Accurate pricing for improved profit

When pricing a product, you have to get it right. Overpricing will lead to lost sales that would have been profitable at a lower price, while underpricing leads to sales that bring revenue without profit. Activity-based pricing is a new paradigm for improving profitability by reducing the occurrence of pricing mistakes and placing less emphasis on increasing revenue and more on improving profits. Pricing for Profitability will help any company set prices that are both attractive to buyers and profitable for the company.

Activity-based pricing will help you:

* Establish prices based on solid knowledge of customer demand and product cost

* Stop unintentionally pricing products at a loss

* Determine how much of a price is profit

* Use superior financial knowledge to generate superior financial return

Pricing for Profitability is intended for use by people from a variety of disciplines: marketing, sales, cost accounting, engineering, economics, and business strategy. While most pricing books approach pricing from a marketing standpoint, this book treats the entire pricing process from multiple points of view, to provide a broad understanding of how to use pricing to gain a competitive advantage.

Too many companies unknowingly price their products at a loss, sometimes a substantial loss, because they do not understand the important interrelationships of price and sales volume and sales volume and cost. This book offers a comprehensive treatment of these interrelationships that will make a difference in your bottom line. The tools and real-world examples included here will allow companies to consistently earn a profit on their products, no matter what that product is.

Organized so that it can be read at several different levels of detail, Pricing for Profitability will help anyone involved in the pricing process make more accurate-and more profitable-decisions.

About the Author, John L. Daly

JOHN L. DALY is President of Daly Consulting and Executive Education Inc., which provides consulting in pricing strategy and profit im-provement. Executive Education Inc. produces continuing professional education seminars for financial managers. Mr. Daly is also a former manufacturing company CFO.

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Book Details

Published
October 1, 2001
Publisher
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780471415350

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