CUSTOMER PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS: CHALLENGES AND NEW DIRECTIONS Summary This article presents the concept of modifying cost accounting system in order to provide measurements from a customer profitability viewpoint. Most management accounting systems focus on products‚ departments or geographical areas‚ which have little to do with customers. A questionnaire was sent to marketing managers and marketing controllers and interviews with respondents. Much of this article draws on qualitative responses
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CUSTOMER PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS Customer profitability analysis (CPA) can be defined as a method used to compare the costs of all the activities used to support a customer or a customer group with the revenue generated by that customer or customer group. It is the analysis of the revenue and costs that relates to the customers which can be determined by considering the similarities and differences in customers’ buying behaviours and customer preferences. From the definition‚ it shows three features
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Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis Customer profitability analysis Topic Gateway Series No. 55 1 Prepared by Jasmin Harvey and Technical Information Service January 2009 Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis About Topic Gateways Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition‚ a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they
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A customer profitability analysis is an evaluation process that focuses on assigning costs and revenues to segments of the customer base‚ instead of assigning revenues and costs to the actual products‚ or the units or departments that compose the corporate structure of the producer. Approaching profitability from this angle can sometimes provide valuable insights into how each step of the process of designing‚ manufacturing‚ and ultimately selling a good or service incurs cost and generates revenue
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in determining the cost of serving customers and as a basis for evaluating the profitabilty of a specific customer or group of customers. Why is this important? Most managers agree that 80% of their profits come from the top 20% of their customers and most important‚ the bottom 20% of their customers are unprofitable. For example‚ to compete with Walmart‚Best Buy works hard to attract profitable customers and equally hard to discourage the unprofitable customers which those that are price shopping
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Group Assignment (Winter 2014) Pilgrim Bank (A): Customer Profitability Pilgrim Bank (A) is a case that analyzes customer profitability in a retail banking setting. It explores a business phenomenon common to the retail banking industry and‚ within this context‚ acquaints you with the types of managerial questions that can be made by data analysis. As a recently hired analyst‚ Alan Green (your group’s role) has data on a sample of customers and must make recommendations about whether the bank
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Importance of Analyzing Customer Profitability BADM 603 July 30‚ 2007 Every for-profit business has one main goal: to maximize profits by selling as much of its products or services to as many customers as possible. It seems logical to think that the more customers that a business has‚ the more profitable the company will be. However‚ business managers should also be aware that some customers are more profitable to the company than others. Managers should analyze their customers to determine those
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RBC Financial Group Case 1. At the start of the 21st century‚ RBC was Canada’s leading bank and largest bank in terms of assets and market capitalization. It was a full-service bank with five main lines of business: personal and commercial banking‚ insurance‚ wealth management‚ corporate / investment banking‚ and transaction processing. The commercial bank of RBC (Royal Bank) accounted for nearly 50% of the company’s net income and had an extensive delivery network with branches‚ Automated Banking
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Situation Royal Bank Canada is a financial institute that owns and operates RBC Insurance - a Canadian owned financial institute headquartered in Mississauga‚ Ontario. Operating globally‚ RBC Insurance has over 5 million clients in the United States‚ Canada‚ and in international markets. Through its operating entities‚ RBC Insurance provides a wide range of travel‚ life‚ health‚ home‚ auto‚ wealth and reinsurance‚ as well as creditor and business insurance services‚ to individual and group clients
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science‚technology‚travel RBC is a financial services group with operations in personal and commercial banking‚ wealth management‚ insurance‚ corporate and investment banking‚ and securities custody and transaction processing. RBC is one of the largest banks in Canada measured by assets and market capitalization and one of the North America’s leading diversified financial services companies‚ but changes in interest rate policy and regulations may affect the group’s profitability. Strengths Leading
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