Price in Marketing

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Teaching results

By completing the course, students gain knowledge about the functions of price and its position in the set of marketing tools, while becoming more familiar with the impact of price as a basic tool for influencing the economy and economic results of business. They will become familiar with pricing decision-making in a company, which is affected by a number of often conflicting factors. The issue of pricing decision-making consists of two components, namely pricing strategies and pricing. They will gain knowledge about pricing procedures and their use in marketing activities with an impact on prices in companies operating in consumer markets and in companies operating in business markets.
Graduates will be able to apply the value and cost approaches in the pricing process, take into account psychological aspects in pricing; subsequently, they will be able to work appropriately with price adjustment options. In a business environment, they can apply a competitive approach to pricing and prepare price proposals for price negotiations. They will understand the connection between the achieved level of sales prices and the company's price goals and the impact on the company's economy.
By successfully completing the course, they will acquire the competence to apply the issue of pricing decision-making in specific business situations in various executive sales positions in companies operating in consumer and business markets. They will be able to work with information on factors that influence pricing decision-making, search for them, select them, analyze them and synthesize them with an orientation towards the creation of a pricing strategy and in specific pricing. They will acquire the ability to connect problems of a strategic and operational nature in the area of pricing strategies and pricing and professional flexibility for the successful connection of business goals and marketing operations on the market in the area of selling prices.

Indicative content

Price functions in business and prices in the marketing mix, price functions; economic, marketing concept of price, place of price in the marketing mix, price in the concept of value creation process. Internal factors of pricing decisions; marketing objectives, marketing mix strategies, costs, organization of pricing in the company. Relationship of pricing with the economy of the company; cost controlling, calculation system of the company, company economic structure. External factors of pricing – market, demand, competition, legislation. Relationship between price and demand in the market, impact on the economic results of the company; price elasticity analysis, marginal analysis, relationship between price, profit and sales volume, analysis of the impact of sales prices on sales development. The essence of pricing decision-making and risk in pricing decision-making in the company. Creation of pricing strategies and decision-making on pricing approaches; purchasing price decision-making of the company. Marketing pricing strategies for consumer and business markets; product line pricing, price differentiation, complementary products and other strategies, behavioral approach to pricing strategies for consumer markets. Value and cost approach to pricing in a business enterprise. Psychological aspects of pricing; customer perceived value. Cost approach to pricing; markup, margin, target return, profitability. Price changes - price adaptation, price adjustment tools. Competitive pricing in business markets. Price negotiation in business relationships; models of price agreements in purchase contracts. Economic aspects of price development, consumer basket, price indices.

Support literature

1. ORESKÝ, Milan – HASPROVÁ, Mária. Cena v marketingu. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2022.
2. FENDEKOVÁ, Eleonóra – KUFELOVÁ, Iveta. Cena a cenové rozhodovanie. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2020.
3. ŠAGÁTOVÁ, Slávka – TÓTH, Miroslav. Nákladový controlling. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer,2020.
4. SILKOSET, RAGNHILD. Pricing: A Guide to Pricing Decisions. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.

Syllabus

1. The position of price in business and prices in the marketing mix, price functions. 2. Internal factors of price decision-making. 3. The relationship between price formation and the economy of the enterprise. Cost controlling. 4. External factors of price formation – market, demand, competition, legislation. 5. The relationship between price and demand in the market, the impact on the economic results of the enterprise. 6. The essence of price decision-making and the risk in the price decision-making of the enterprise. 7. Marketing price strategies for consumer and business markets. 8. Value and cost approach to price formation in a business enterprise. Psychological aspects of price formation. 9. Price changes – price adaptation, price adjustment tools. 10. Competitive pricing in business markets. 11. Specific approaches to price formation in business markets, commodities, auctions, tenders, prices of capital goods. 12. Economic aspects of price development, consumer basket, price indices. 13. Practices of using price in marketing and sales.

Requirements to complete the course

10% continuous semester assessment
10% semester work
80% written exam

Student workload

Workload: 130 hours
- Attendance at lectures: 26 hours
- Participation in seminars: 26 hours
- Preparation for seminars: 10 hours
- Processing of the semester project: 20 hours
- Preparation for written knowledge verification: 10 hours
- Exam preparation: 38 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak, English

Date of approval: 08.07.2025

Date of the latest change: 27.01.2026