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Cost Analysis
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Select appropriate cost allocation method for various sales management situations
Describe how to implement methods
Discuss importance of (ROAM) and calculate
Apply financial cost analyses to sales management situations to make decisions
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12.1 Customer Lifetime Value Analysis
Determine real costs associated with each customer Some portion of overhead Salesperson’s time Customer service contact Sales terms Payment schedules
Largest customers may not be most profitable
Allows companies to assign resources strategically
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Cost Analysis Development
Sales managers need accurate knowledge of profitability of Customers Geographic areas Products
Three approaches Full costing Contribution analysis Activity-based costing (ABC)
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Full Cost vs. Contribution Margin
Full-cost (net profit) - many of the indirect costs can be assigned on the basis of a demonstrable cost relationship
Contribution margin - direct product costs identified associated with revenue to yield a true Gross Profit
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12.1Differences in perspective between full-cost and contribution margin approaches to marketing cost analysis
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12.2Profit and loss statement by department using a full-cost
approach
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12.3Profit and loss statement if department 1 were eliminated
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12.4Contribution margin by departments
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ABC Accounting
Activity-based costing (ABC) Allocates costs to activities Identifies fixed cost
components for production and sales and associates them with the products sold
Costs once assumed to be fixed in the short-run can be associated with operating units such as a sales office
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Source: Adapted from James M. Reeve, “Activity-Based Cost Systems for Functional Integration and Customer Value,” in Competing Globally through Customer Value: The Management of Strategic Suprasystems, eds. Michael J. Stahl and Gregory M. Bounds (New York: Quorum Books, 1991), p. 501.
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A diagram of activity-based costing
12-12Source: Robert A. Dwyer and John F. Tanner, Jr., Business Marketing: Connecting Strategy Relationships and Learning (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999).
12.6 Comparison of contribution and ABC methods
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Steps in conducting a marketing profitability analysis
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12.8 Major functional accounts that are useful in marketing cost analysis
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12.2 The T&E Expense Account
Travel and entertainment account
Fraud related to T&E has increased >200% since 1996
Two common frauds Mischaracterized expenses Overstated expenses
Source: Jay Boehmer, “Expense Fraud Explodes,” Business Traveler News, August 11, 2003, pp. 1, 68–69.
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Example profit and loss statement
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Allocation of natural accounts to functional accounts
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Basic data used for allocations
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Profitability analysis by salesperson
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12.14Activities of Tucker broken down by account
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Profitability analysis for Tucker broken down by customer
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Marketing Cost Analyses +/-
Benefit - isolates most/least profitable segments of business
Combined with effective sales analysis, provides a formidable tool for managing personal selling
Improves planning and control Required data may be costly to
acquire, maintain Cost allocation decisions can be
difficult
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Return on Assets Managed
Sales analysis - measures the results achieved by the sales force.
Cost analysis - measures the cost of producing those results.
ROAM = Contribution as a percentage of sales x Asset turnover rate
Contribution as percentage of sales = ratio of net contribution divided be sales
Asset turnover rate = sales divided by the assets needed to produce those sales
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Analysis of return on assets managed
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Expanded return on assets managed (ROAM) model
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Impact of a reduction in accounts receivable to $250,000 in branch A
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