Profit and Business Organizations

Profits are required to support innovation, which, in turn, is required to create economic growth (Horngren 14). At the enterprise level, provides are requires to assure continued viability. The probability for profitable operations is enhanced through planning.

Formal strategic planning (FSP) is defined as "the process of determining the mission, major objectives, strategies, and policies that govern the acquisition and allocation of resources to achieve organizational aims" (Pearce, Freeman, and Robinson 658). Strategic planning is a process that generates specific actions which are required to carry out a particular strategy.

Although the strength of the links between strategic planning and financial performance remains a matter of some dispute, recent studies have demonstrated that such links do exist (Habib and Victor 589-606; Shrader 45-60).

FSP has been related to organizational financial performance both positively and negatively (Fisher 25-28). Formal planned patterns of growth have been positively related to organizational performance (Robinson and Pea

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tion. As an example, a firm may be willing to sacrifice some profitability, as a means of maximizing volume. In such an instance, the firm would want to assure only a minimum level of profit. A difference exists between pricing policies and pricing practices. A firm may have a pricing policy designed to yield a specific target profit. Market and industry conditions, however, may result in actual pricing which yields some level of satisfactory profits, without producing the desired target profits. Even though actual pricing may vary from pricing policies, formal pricing policies are required, as a means of insuring that actual pricing will contribute, to the maximum possible extent, to the attainment of profit goals. Pricing policies are required, in order for business management to assure that actual pricing will contribute to the maximum extent possible to the attainment of profit goals. The type of profit goals adopted by firms vary; however, target profit goals are the most effective in the long-term maximization of the value of a firm to its owners. The use of both marginal cost pricing and pricing based upon standard costs facilitates the use of target profit goals. At the end of financial measurement periods, the r
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