Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions
Title: Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 2748 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 2748 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Objectives:
1. To illustrate the importance of the assumptions embedded in a profit plan
2. To familiarise students with various sources of business information
3. To learn how to use a profit plan to test key business decisions
Case Synopsis
The case portrays a series of profit planning decisions in a family-owned publishing company. The case is written by and about the same individual, Ramsey Walker, a young, recent business school graduate. The case begins with a quick
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for the heftier advances that larger publishers can offer. In fact, a publisher rarely makes a good profit margin on a title where a large upfront advance was paid to a "guaranteed bestseller" author. Small publishers can compete with large ones by offering authors the same chance to earn long-term royalties. Walker's second strategy is to find "undiscovered," less expensive authors, keep them through good editorial service, and build up their writing to award-winning quality.