The Accounting Equation values your business:

Asset Value = Equities + Liabilities

Accounting Equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_equation :

Assets = Liabilities + Contributed Capital + Revenue − Expenses − Dividends

Revenue - Expenses

Cash flow is Revenue.

Cash flow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow :

> A cash flow CF is determined by its time t, nominal amount N, currency CCY, and account A; symbolically, CF = CF(t, N, CCY, A)

Though CF(A, t, ...) or CF(t, A) may be more search-index optimal, and really A_src_n, A_dest_n [...] ILP Interledger Protocol.

Payment fees are part of the price, unless you're a charity with a donate processing costs too option.

OTOH, though there are already standard departmental accounting chart names:

price_product_a = cost_payment_fees + cost_materials + cost_labor + cost_marketing + cost_sales + cost_support + cost_errors_omissions + cost_chargebacks + cost_legal + cost_future_liabilities + [...]

A CAS Computer Algebra System like {SymPy,Sage} in a notebook can help define inequality relations to bound or limit the solution volume or hyper volume(s)

And then unit test functions can assert that a hypothesized model meets criteria for success

But in Python, for example, test_ functions can't return values to the test runner, they would need to write [solution evaluation score] outputs to a store or a file to be collected with the other build artifacts and attached to a GitHub Release, for example.

Eventually, costs = {a: 0, b: 2} so that it's costs[account:str|uint64] instead of cost_account, and then costs = ERP.reports[name,date].archived_output()

Monte Carlo simulation is possible with things like PyMC (MCMC) and TIL about PyVBMC. Agent-based simulation of consumers may or may not be more expensive or the same problem. In behavioral economics, many rational consumers make informed buying decisions.

Looking at causal.app > Templates, I don't see anything that says "pricing" but instead "Revenue" which may imply models for sales, pricing, costs, cost drivers;

> Finance > Marketing-driven SaaS Revenue Model for software companies with multiple products. Its revenue growth is driven by marketing spend.

> Finance > Sales-driven SaaS Revenue > Understand sales rep productivity and forecast revenue accurately

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- Blog: "The Pros and Cons of Common SaaS Pricing Models",

- Models: "Simple SaaS pricing calculator",

- /? hn site=causal.app > more lists a number of SaaS metrics posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=causal.app

/? startupschool pricing: https://www.google.com/search?q=startupschool+pricing

Startup School Curriculum > Ctrl-F pricing: https://www.startupschool.org/curriculum

- "Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School" https://youtube.com/watch?v=oWZbWzAyHAE&

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Pricing strategies > Models of pricing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricing_strategies#Models_of_p...

Price analysis > Key Aspects, Marketing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_analysis :

> In marketing, price analysis refers to the analysis of consumer response to theoretical prices assessed in survey research

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As a market economist looking at product pricing, given maximal optimization for price And CLV customer lifetime value, what corrective forces will pull the price back down? Macroeconomic forces, competition,

Porter's five forces analysis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s_five_forces_analysi... :

> Porter's five forces include three forces from 'horizontal competition' – the threat of substitute products or services, the threat of established rivals, and the threat of new entrants – and two others from 'vertical' competition – the bargaining power of suppliers and the bargaining power of customers.

> Porter developed his five forces framework in reaction to the then-popular SWOT analysis, which he found both lacking in rigor and ad hoc.[3] Porter's five-forces framework is based on the structure–conduct–performance paradigm in industrial organizational economics. Other Porter's strategy tools include the value chain and generic competitive strategies.

Are there upsells now, later; planned opportunities to produce additional value for the longer term customer relationship?

When and how will you lower the price in response to competition and costs?

How does a pricing strategy vary if at all if a firm is Bootstrapping vs the Bank's money?

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