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FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY OF SMES
This lecture deals with the financial feasibility, flow sheets, short term and long term loans, cash flow analysis and financial cost.
Financial Feasibility
It covers the following:
Determination of total financial requirements
It can be done by preparing a financial statement in the following way:
Financial Requirement Statement:
| Initial Expense | Period 1 | Period 2 |
| Expense in product development | ------- | ------- |
| Legal expense | ------- | ------- |
| Product testing expenditure | ------- | ------- |
| Marketing and technical feasibility Expenditure | ------- | ------- |
| Miscellaneous expense | ------- | ------- |
| Sub Total(1) | ------- | ------- |
| Fixed investments | ------- | ------- |
| Building | ------- | ------- |
| Equipment and machinery | ------- | ------- |
| Patents | ------- | ------- |
| Other equipments | ------- | ------- |
| Sub Total(2) | ------- | ------- |
| Operational expenditure | ------- | ------- |
| Material | ------- | ------- |
| Wages | ------- | ------- |
| Sales promotion, distribution | ------- | ------- |
| Rent, interest, insurance, taxes | ------- | ------- |
| Contingency | ------- | ------- |
| Sub Total(3) | ||
| Total | 1+2+3 | 1+2+3 |
In making the above estimation, provision must be made for cost escalation that is inevitable due to price changes. Besides, appropriate sales forecasts should also be made to have a clear picture of expenditure. The projection could be weekly or monthly.
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MARKET SEGMENTATION
Learning objectives
The main objective of this chapter to enable to students about concern marketing issue such marketing segmentation, marketing mix and product positioning relating to strategy implementation.
Marketing Mix
Marketing decisions generally fall into the following four controllable categories:
- Product
- Price
- Place (distribution)
- Promotion
The term "marketing mix" became popularized after Neil H. Borden published his 1964 article, The Concept of the Marketing Mix. Borden began using the term in his teaching in the late 1940's after James Culliton had described the marketing manager as a "mixer of ingredients". The ingredients in Borden's marketing mix included product planning, pricing, branding, distribution channels, personal selling, advertising, promotions, packaging, display, servicing, physical handling, and fact finding and analysis. E. Jerome McCarthy later grouped these ingredients into the four categories that today are known as the 4 P's of marketing, depicted below:
Read more: MGT603 - Strategic Management - Lecture Handout 37
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