Accountable marketing : linking marketing actions to financial performance

Preface -- Introduction: making marketing accountable -- Delivering to the marketing accountability mandate -- Lessons from the quality movement -- Language, measures, and metrics: establishing standards -- Marketing's search for a common language -- Measuring brand preference -- Measuring return on brand investment -- Customer lifetime value (CLV) and its relevance to the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry -- Customer lifetime value in the packaged goods industry -- What is known about the long-term impact of advertising -- Long term effects of marketing actions -- Social media - what value for marketing measurement? -- Linking finance and marketing -- The relationship of marketing and finance -- Creating a partnership between marketing and finance -- Reporting on brands -- Brand valuation in accordance with gaap and legal requirements -- The corporate brand : the company's most valuable asset -- Tax implications of the treatment of marketing expenses -- The marketing metric audit protocol (MMAP) -- Organizational dimensions of marketing accountability -- Navigating barriers, opportunity, and change on the marketing accountability journey, or road to romi -- Marketing organization and accountability -- Epilogue