GRA 6435 Marketing Finance
GRA 6435 Marketing Finance
We witness an increased emphasis on ensuring return on marketing investments. With this, customers should be viewed as assets representing the firms future cash flow. The objective of this course is to expose our graduate students to the new role of marketing and provide them with quantitative techniques to compute customer value and the financial impacts of various marketing decisions on customer and hence firm value.
The learning outcome of this course is to appreciate the concept of marketing accountability and acquire concrete quantitative techniques to put into practice.
Being able to think about marketing actions in terms of financial implications
Acquiring some Excel skills
Improving statistical and mathematical skills
Thinking about marketing in terms of financial accountability
Marketing Finance is founded on three pillars: marketing theory, applied statistics, and finance. The objective is to integrate these three disciplines into a framework allowing participants to perform data driven decisions illuminating the consequences of different marketing investments. Being able to compute customer value and to model aspects impacting customer equity is central to the course. The course will consist of a combination of lectures and group assignments and will contain a large quantitative component. It should be treated as a reasonably advanced marketing research course.
The course will be a combination of lectures and group assignments. It will have a large quantitative component in it and should be treated as a reasonably advanced marketing research course. We will cover topics such as customer selection, customer lifetime value, managing customers as investments and customer base analysis.
Please note that it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/itslearning or text book.
This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component is graded by using points on a scale from 0-100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the examination code (course). Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam elements will get a lower grade or may fail the course. You will find detailed information about the point system and the cut off points with reference to the letter grades when the course start.
At resit, all exam components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 30 Grouping: Group (2 - 3) Duration: 2 Week(s) Comment: Assignment Exam code: GRA64351 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 30 Grouping: Group (2 - 3) Duration: 2 Week(s) Comment: Assignment Exam code: GRA64351 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Invigilation Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 3 Hour(s) Comment: Written examination Exam code: GRA64351 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.