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As S Ig Nment: Taller Pepita Disco Caso Apple Watch (Harvard Business Cases)

The document discusses a company called Pepita Disco that is considering changing its price to improve margins. It provides financial information for Pepita Disco in 2011, including revenue, costs, margins, and other metrics. The assignment asks the owner to analyze how changing price by 10% would affect Pepita Disco's net margin, and to determine the optimal price that maximizes total revenues or economic profits based on estimating a demand function and costs.

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As S Ig Nment: Taller Pepita Disco Caso Apple Watch (Harvard Business Cases)

The document discusses a company called Pepita Disco that is considering changing its price to improve margins. It provides financial information for Pepita Disco in 2011, including revenue, costs, margins, and other metrics. The assignment asks the owner to analyze how changing price by 10% would affect Pepita Disco's net margin, and to determine the optimal price that maximizes total revenues or economic profits based on estimating a demand function and costs.

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stagnant earnings growth, which had only averaged 2.

7% over the past three years under her


father’s oversight. Determined to meet or exceed the overall market’s far more robust growth
projections, she began to contemplate various options to increase sales and margins.

As s ig nme nt Taller Pepita Disco


Caso Apple Watch (Harvard Business Cases)
Use the financials in Table 1 to answer the following questions.
Teniendo en cuenta la situación inicial de la empresa:
Table 1: Pepita Disco Performance, 2011 (UYU in millions)
Units sold 100 million units

Revenue 200

Variable costs
Materials 30
Direct labor (manufacturing, sales) 40
Operational costs (manufacturing, inventory, delivery) 30
Other variable costs 20

Margin on sales 80

Fixed costs
Marketing and advertising 10
Research and development 10
Other fixed costs (e.g., head office) 40

Net margin 20

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del concepto decosts will change
elasticidad proportionally
para esta with volume.
toma de decisión.
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conocer el valor de la elasticidad.
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les ayudará al análisis comparativo.
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4. Estime la función de demanda de pepita para este producto (en Excel o matemáticamente con el
método punto pendiente). Estime la elasticidad a cada nivel de precio y los ingresos totales
correspondientes. Grafique la demanda y los ingresos totales. Encuentre el nivel de precio al cuál es
empresario maximiza los ingresos. Analice la situación respecto al precio y cantidad incial.

5. Teniendo en cuenta la función de costo total (Costo fijo + costo variable) que obtiene del estado de
resultados inicial y la función de ingresos totales, obtenga la función de beneficios económicos.
Encuentre el precio y la cantidad que maximiza estos beneficios y analice comparativamente con lo
hallado en el punto 4. Realice la tabla de beneficios a cada nivel de precio y cantidad y grafique los
beneficios económicos.

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