In Customer Profitability Analysis?

Customer Profitability Analysis (in short CPA) is a management accounting and a credit underwriting method, allowing businesses and lenders to determine the profitability of each customer or segments of customers, by attributing profits and costs to each customer separately.

What is meant by customer profitability analysis?

A customer profitability analysis (CPA) looks at the revenue (or profit) that each individual customer generates. While activity-based costing examines individual cost drivers to determine the profitability of a product, a customer profitability analysis applies this same approach to customers.

How do you analyze customer profitability?

How to do a customer profitability analysis
  1. Questions to ask yourself about your customers. ...
  2. Step 1: Identify existing channels of customer contact. ...
  3. Step 2: Define your customer groups. ...
  4. Step 3: Find the data and establish customer profitability metrics. ...
  5. Step 4: Putting together your customer profitability analysis.
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