- Description
 - Specifications
 
This paper analyses how a retail business should go about setting prices. It closely examines customers' perceptions on prices and considers the gross profit rate that the business can achieve. The material also includes a Mark Up/Gross Profit Chart to show the comparison between a particular mark up and what the equivalent gross profit percentage is on sales.
The paper includes comments on:
- Price Setting Is A Difficult Step
 - Pricing Can Determine Profit Or Loss
 - Pricing Fallacies
 - What Is Your Customer's Cost?
 - Why Do Your Customers Buy?
 - Competitors' Intelligence Files
 - Customer Decision Process
 - Understand Customers' Perception On Pricing
 - What Are The Business's Overheads?
 - Customers' Perception On Prices
 - Mark Up/Gross Profit
 - Sales Statistics
 - Equivalent Of Mark Up Percentage To Gross Profit Percentage Chart
 - Targeted Net Profit
 - Determining Gross Profit Required
 - Affect Of Gross Profit Percentage In Determining Sales Figure
 - Proof Of Gross Profit
 - Mix On Purchases And Mark Up % And Therefore Sales - What Effect On Profitability?