Sales

Sales

Sales is the process of selling goods or services. The process begins with the request to buy by a customer or a offer to sell by a seller. Then follows the payment and change of title.

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Average total cost

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A measure of cost control, calculated by dividing the total cost of the goods produced by the number of units sold.

Return on assets managed

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A measure of a firm's profitability, after-tax profit expressed as a percentage of assets used to make it.

A marketing situation in which there are a large number of sellers of a product which cannot be differentiated and, thus, no one firm has a significant influence on price, other prevailing conditions ...

Product-differentiated marketing

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A marketing philosophy in which the seller views the market as a homogeneous whole, but produces two or more products for it, the products, differing in attributes (price, style, quality, etc), are ...

Mass marketing

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A marketing philosophy in which the seller views the market as a homogeneous whole, and, therefore, has only one marketing programme (the same product, the same price, the same promotion and the same ...

Marketing expense-to-sales ratio

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A marketing control measure used to determine whether the cost of the marketing activities engaged in to produce the level of sales in a given period was excessive, total marketing expenses are ...

Sales promotion-to-sales ratio

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A marketing control measure used to determine whether the amount spent on sales promotion was on budget, total expenditure on sales promotion in a given period is expressed as a percentage of total ...