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Session: Strategic Pricing Optimisation
Speaker: Ron Wood, Pricing Insight
How do you calculate prices for your goods/services?
Do you have a pricing manager in your business?
Where does pricing power reside in your organisation?
Is there a disconnect between your sales and accounting staff?
These were some pertinent questions raised by Ron Wood of Pricing Insight. Pricing Insight is a consulting organisation that specialises in pricing strategy. This session would be more relevant to management accountants. Overrall, we must say that the session was quite good and highly interactive. It was in the same round table room as Five Financial Must Do’s session.
Day 4 was another action packed today. We attended 5 seminars and a business lunch.
Accountants need to move up the value chain
The first session was by the CIMA President on the alliance between CIMA and the CPA. CIMA is the Chartered Insitute of Management Accountants, and to be honest we had not heard of it. Its a global organisation and Aubrey Joachim, their global president was on hand to present.
Updating business models during the financial crisis
This was a talk from an academic, Gayle Avery about Sustainable Leadership models. The title of the session was “Updating business models during the financial crisis” and we assumed it was going to be about financial models or updating business practices. As another audience said after the presentation, they did not know what to expect either.
The session revolved around explaining a new type of business model called FourS, which is about sustainability and the organisation being part of a wider community. A lot of business operate on a TRAP business model, that is: