This task uses a profit/loss table to highlight a firm that has dramatically increased its profitability in a few years. But they have focused on a short-term, not long-term, basis and students need to determine what impact this may have?
Allocating fixed costs to products, in order to more fully assess product profitability, can be determined in different ways with different outcomes. In this simple example, students assess the impact of allocating fixed costs to its products profitability.
In this activity, students need to review the recent new product launch results across different firms from a financial perspective and assess how well that their respective launches went.
This food retailer has experienced significant top-level growth over the past few years. But underpinning their results is a significant increase in franchised stores/outlets, so are the results as good as they appear?
In this exercise, students need to calculate the total salary/incentive paid to salespeople (across different payment structures) and then determine which structure has the best approach for the firm’s marketing goals.
A significant proportion of planned sales promotions do not get implemented due to the lack of full support by the retailer. The student task is to determine whether the retailer is likely to run/support the sales promotion.
In this activity, students need to allocate the overall promotional budget to help support the launch of a new computer game console.
For each of the following decisions, students will calculate and determine whether the promotional expenditure generates a positive return on investment (that is, a marketing return on investment = ROMI).
In this activity, you simply need to match each example provided to the approach that the firm has used in setting/determining its promotional budget.
In this case study, the student task is to determine whether the firm should continue with its current strategy (which is mainly priced-based) or does it need to adopt a new approach?
