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February 15th, 2010 by admin Leave a reply »

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Pricing for Profit (02)

In this second chance, we will be acquainted with the key to proper profit pricing – that is to cover three important pricing equation parts. They are apparently the costs we ought to pay for in order that we could sell what we sell. For instance, when we are furniture makers we will need to purchase nails, screws, wood, wood glue and others to produce a piece of furniture. The items purchased are our direct costs, or people commonly define as an out-of-date humble inventory.
Further more we shall need to factor thing known as indirect costs. They are apparently kinds of other expenses which relate directly to the furniture production and selling process. We could as well take into consideration of the indirect expenses that we also draw as delivery and installation results upon finished furniture product such as parking fees, fuel, labor, overtime working and so on.
We often hear Activity Based Costing or ABC. It is found mostly in big scale production some business in where almost every production aspect involved is taken into account and redeemed in prices of the products. Meanwhile, as a small business, we don’t suggest on trying to restore every aspect out of the costs where we commonly might price the products out of range for the consumers. This cost-recovering process of the products is apparently risky when the products are not properly damaged.
Hence, there are only certain costs we can restore in our product prices without making the prices of the products too high and beyond reach so that no one could afford to buy our products. For example, as the furniture maker we wish to recover the installation cost through laboring on any single furniture installation whereas we could not restore the expenses of ads which got us the client at the first position.
Let’s take a look at another example of ABC. When we get back to the issue of joist hangers production, we shall surely wish to restore the expense of the metal sheet along with the expense of each worker who actually carries on his job over the joist hanger production.

1 comment

  1. ACCA lady says:

    I think it's time to move to alternative metrics instead of ABC model. Kaplan's balanced scorecard is more up to date.

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