A Mathematical Model for Optimizing Sales Mark-Up Price and Service Charge in a Profit-Maximizing Firm

Emmanuel Nwaeze

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A Mathematical Model for Optimizing Sales Mark-Up Price and Service Charge in a Profit-Maximizing Firm

Emmanuel Nwaeze

Published in International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 4)

Received: 5 May 2015 Accepted: 12 June 2015 Published: 29 June 2015

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In the world of commerce and industry, every business outfit seeks to maximize its profit. The optimal values of sales mark-up price and service charge sustain this objective. This is true since some firms could sell their products for cash or for no money down with cost spread over some period of equal payments. Thus, the firm’s income comes from sales and the service charges collected on time payment accounts. In most cases, based on each firm’s experience, sales marked-up price and service charge were randomly fixed. In this paper, I present a mathematical model for optimizing sales mark-up price and service charge in a profit-maximizing firm. Testing the model on real life problems confirms that the model is accurate. The numerical results show that the model is amenable to financial analysis and computer automation.

Published in	International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijefm.20150304.13
Page(s)	347-351
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mathematical Model, Sales Mark-Up Price, Service Charge, Profit-Maximizing Firm

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Department of Mathematics/Computer Science/Statistics/Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Nigeria

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Emmanuel Nwaeze. A Mathematical Model for Optimizing Sales Mark-Up Price and Service Charge in a Profit-Maximizing Firm. Int J Econ Finance Manag Sci. 2015;3(4):347-351. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20150304.13

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