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  • Formatas: Hardback, 200 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x156 mm, weight: 425 g, 1 Hardback
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Sep-1992
  • Leidėjas: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0899307361
  • ISBN-13: 9780899307367
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 200 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x156 mm, weight: 425 g, 1 Hardback
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Sep-1992
  • Leidėjas: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0899307361
  • ISBN-13: 9780899307367
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Packed with concrete examples, the book has been described by readers as "fascinating," "what I should have learned in school," and "mesmerizing." For those who want to move beyond reading to doing, the book contains a lengthy set of problems and the answers to those problems. These problems help you master the material in the book. This book covers in a vivid, readable style the basics of cost accounting, marginal analysis, and contribution accounting. These are the basic tools that marketers use day in and day out. Read this book and you will master these tools, and be on your way to developing more profitable marketing programs.


This book covers in vivid, clear prose the basic accounting tools that marketers need to develop profitable marketing programs: costs, marketing arithmetic, marginal analysis, and contribution accounting. It is thorough and up-to-date, and has a hard-as-nails practicality to it. The book is packed with examples that are both fascinating and illustrative of the author's points.

After a short treatment of the uses and limitations of microeconomics to the practicing marketer, the book develops in detail two key ideas from microeconomics--costs and marginal analysis. Each is explained fully with illustrations and advice on how to use the idea. For readers who want to increase their mastery of the material, there are some seventy problems with complete answers at the end of the volume. This is a solid book for marketers and would-be marketers who want to increase their competence on the job.



This book covers in vivid, clear prose the basic accounting tools that marketers need to develop profitable marketing programs: costs, marketing arithmetic, marginal analysis, and contribution accounting. It is thorough and up-to-date, and has a hard-as-nails practicality to it. The book is packed with examples that are both fascinating and illustrative of the author's points.

After a short treatment of the uses and limitations of microeconomics to the practicing marketer, the book develops in detail two key ideas from microeconomics--costs and marginal analysis. Each is explained fully with illustrations and advice on how to use the idea. For readers who want to increase their mastery of the material, there are some seventy problems with complete answers at the end of the volume. This is a solid book for marketers and would-be marketers who want to increase their competence on the job.



This book covers in a vivid, readable style the basics of cost accounting, marginal analysis, and contribution accounting. These are the basic tools that marketers use day in and day out. Read this book and you will master these tools, and be on your way to developing more profitable marketing programs.

This book covers in vivid, clear prose the basic accounting tools that marketers need to develop profitable marketing programs: costs, marketing arithmetic, marginal analysis, and contribution accounting. It is thorough and up-to-date, and has a hard-as-nails practicality to it. The book is packed with examples that are both fascinating and illustrative of the author's points.

After a short treatment of the uses and limitations of microeconomics to the practicing marketer, the book develops in detail two key ideas from microeconomics--costs and marginal analysis. Each is explained fully with illustrations and advice on how to use the idea. For readers who want to increase their mastery of the material, there are some seventy problems with complete answers at the end of the volume. This is a solid book for marketers and would-be marketers who want to increase their competence on the job.

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This book covers in a vivid, readable style the basics of cost accounting, marginal analysis, and contribution accounting. These are the basic tools that marketers use day in and day out. Read this book and you will master these tools, and be on your way to developing more profitable marketing programs.
Preface ix
First Words
1(4)
What You Will Find in This Book
2(3)
Why You Should Learn Some Economic Theory...but Only a Little
5(12)
Two Divisions of Economics
5(1)
Learning Some Microeconomics
6(1)
Why Is It So Hard to Use Microeconomics?
7(5)
What Microeconomics Offers to a Manager and What It Doesn't Offer
12(2)
Managerial Economics
14(1)
How to Use Microeconomics
14(3)
What Every Marketer Needs to Know About Costs
17(22)
Variable Costs
17(2)
Fixed Costs
19(1)
Semi-Variable Costs
20(1)
Programmed Costs
20(2)
Avoidable Costs
22(1)
Traceable Costs
22(1)
Actual Costs
23(1)
The Mix of Costs
23(1)
Marginal Costs
24(1)
Sunk Costs
24(4)
Opportunity Costs
28(5)
How to Classify Costs
33(4)
Summary
37(2)
Elements of Marketing Arithmetic
39(14)
Gross Margins
39(8)
Retailing Arithmetic
47(4)
How to Use Marketing Arithmetic
51(2)
Averages and Marginals---What Marginal Analysis Says
53(22)
The Marginal Principle
53(5)
Averages
58(5)
Marginals
63(3)
Marginals and Averages Are Easy to Confuse
66(2)
Examples of Marginal Thinking
68(4)
If Marginal Analysis Is So Great, Why Doesn't Everyone Use It?
72(1)
How to Use Marginal Thinking in Analyzing Marketing Problems
72(3)
The Marketing Control Statement
75(10)
How to Prepare a Marketing Control Statement
75(2)
Advantages of the Marketing Control Statement
77(4)
What's Wrong with the Marketing Control Statement?
81(1)
What's Wrong with Using Allocated Costs?
82(1)
How to Use the Marketing Control Statement
83(2)
Break-Even Points and Just-Cover Points
85(14)
The Traditional View of a Break-Even Point
85(1)
How Marketers Use Break-Even Points
85(4)
Shortcuts to Figuring Break-Even and Just-Cover Points
89(7)
How to Use Break-Even and Just-Cover Points
96(1)
Appendix
96(3)
Contribution Analysis---Why Didn't We Make Plan?
99(18)
Two Examples to Get Started
99(4)
Variance Analysis
103(5)
Variance Analysis---Another Pass
108(4)
Variances for Market Size and Market Share
112(2)
A Wrap-Up
114(1)
How to Use Contribution Analysis
115(2)
Last Words
117(2)
Appendixes 119(64)
Problems
121(27)
Answers to the Problems
148(35)
Index 183
DAVID L. RADOS is Professor of Marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. He has taught graduate students at Harvard, Columbia, and Vanderbilt and at universities in Australia, Tanzania, and England. He is a popular speaker and has run successful executive seminars for clients and universities on three continents for over twenty years. He has written three books, including a best-selling book on nonprofit marketing (Auburn House, 1980), and many articles on marketing. He has consulted for such companies as Scott Paper, AT&T, the Girl Scouts of America, and the New York Port Authority. He has served as a director of a machine equipment company and an expert witness in patent litigation.