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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Research Study

The Role of Costs in Pricing

  • Open or CloseDonald E Sexton*

    Professor Emeritus of Business, Columbia University, USA

    *Corresponding author:Donald E Sexton, Professor Emeritus of Business, Columbia University, USA

Submission: August 13, 2019;Published: September 18, 2020

Abstract

Costs certainly play a role in pricing. However, typically cost-plus pricing assigns the wrong role for costs in the pricing process and that can lead to serious pricing mistakes. The role of costs should be to evaluate the feasibility of a price, not to set the price.

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