The University of Manchester (UOM) • Bsc Management

Pricing and Intra Company Transfers

This lecture we will be focusing on pricing, costing being a part of it. We will be discussing major factors that affect the pricing decisions and long term and short term decision making. We will also be discussing the different pricing strategies.

Comparing the costs for service and manufacturing sectors and coming up with way to allocate the costs for service sector.

Notes provide a starting point to the concept of investments. Starting with the basic steps of portfolio construction, notes take the reader through different concepts of risk aversion and capital allocation.

Calculating the activity based cost, its limitations and time driven activity based costing.

The notes introduce the reader to the concept of risk and returns of an investment. It covers different techniques of measuring the risks associated with investments.

Describes the different market segments, factors affecting segmentation, marketing strategies and positioning.

This document gives a very good highlight on the different types of promotional tools available for companies. It has special focus on Advertising later in the document. The way to chose the promotional tool is also given.

Tells us how to calculate different types of profit, the different ways to calculate depreciation and also ways to valuate inventories. Benefits of Income Statement are also discussed.

The notes cover important aspect of the investment techniques. Both Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return are explained in detail including the fallacies of IRR rule. Formula for payback rule and profitability index is also included.