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Price-volume-mix contribution chart
Explains a revenue or profit change through calculated price, volume and mix effects.
- Chart
- Contribution
- Deviation
What it answers
How much of a financial change comes from price, volume and mix?
- Shape
- Additive bridge bars
- What it shows
- Financial change drivers under a stated method.
Example
The question
How much of the revenue change came from price, volume and mix?
Revenue 2024 to 2025 by driver (EUR million)
Illustrative data. It belongs to no company.
When to use it
Use it when
Explaining a properly calculated revenue/profit bridge.
Avoid it when
When decomposition method or interaction allocation is unspecified.
How to read it
Read each calculated contribution in the bridge and reconcile the endpoints.
Note
Decomposition methods differ. Disclose the method.
The data you need
- Layout
- Calculated contribution table
- Fields
- Order: integer; Component: text; Contribution: signed number; Type: Start/Change/Total
- One row is
- One precomputed additive effect or endpoint in a price-volume-mix bridge. What is the grain?
- Rules
- Calculate effects using a stated decomposition. Contributions must reconcile. Rendering does not calculate PVM automatically.
- Optional
- Raw calculation inputs: Product,PriorPrice,PriorQuantity,CurrentPrice,CurrentQuantity.
- Preparation
- Apply a disclosed PVM decomposition to product-level prices and quantities, allocate interactions explicitly and reconcile contributions.
- Units
- Additive currency contributions to a stated revenue/profit difference, calculated with a disclosed method.
Worked example
Calculated contributions: prior 100, price+10, volume+8, mix-3, current 115. The three effects sum 15; another PVM method may allocate effects differently.
| Order | Component | Contribution | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PriorRevenue | 100 | Start |
| 2 | Price | 10 | Change |
| 3 | Volume | 8 | Change |
| 4 | Mix | -3 | Change |
| 5 | CurrentRevenue | 115 | Total |