2007 CBA Operating Statement Survey

$200 Incentive Package for Retail Participants!

The 2007 CBA Operating Statement Survey is now available and CBA is asking Christian retailers to participate.  This vital industry survey provides key performance benchmarks to stores, allowing each store to measure financial, sales, inventory, and operational performance against all stores or against similar stores broken down by: most profitable, number of stores, sales volume size, geographic region, building type or location, number of years in business or by total square footage.

The survey is only three pages long, the first page asking six basic demographic questions.  The other two pages summarize data from a store's annual income statements and balance sheets, totaling 55 pieces of data.

CBA is also offering an unprecedented, robust incentive package, valued at $200, to the first 300 stores returning surveys.  The package includes:  a FREE copy of the final 2007 Operating Statement Survey report (valued at $100); a FREE customized report comparing your store’s survey answers with the similar and most profitable stores (valued at $50); and a $50 discount certificate for your store's next CBA membership renewal. 

Once again, on behalf of CBA, Industry Insights will receive, process, and create the final report and the special customized store reports.  Only Industry Insights will receive the submitted surveys and be the keepers of the survey information insuring your store’s anonymity and privacy will be maintained throughout the process.

To participate in this incredible offer and contribute to this essential Christian retail industry study, simply download the survey. Instructions for completing and returning the survey are on the form.

Take the survey soon!  The deadline is April 6, and the $200 incentive package is for the first 300 stores!

 

2005 CBA Operating Statement Survey

This unique research effort represents the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date comparative financial performance information about the Christian Retail Channel available anywhere.  The study is designed to serve as an easy-to-understand, managerially actionable tool with which industry stores can evaluate their own store’s results in order to pin-point strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. 

As in past years, the overriding goal of this report is to provide information that will enable Christian retail owners and managers to better manage their store operations.

The detailed survey results in this report include comparative financial measures broken down by:

  • All responding Christian stores
  • High profit respondents (i.e., the upper 50% of respondents in performance based on the ratio “net profit before tax to total assets”)
  • Christian stores by number of stores
  • Responding Christian stores by sales volume
  • Responding Christian stores by geographic region
  • Responding Christian stores by building type or store location
  • Respondents by number of years in the Christian retail business
  • Respondents by total store square footage

New categories and features were added to this survey, including:

  • New categories added for building type or store location
  • Stores were asked if they are located near discount retail stores, category killer bookstores, or other Christian retailers
  • Added breakdowns of net sales by month, as well as net sales by category
  • A special article has been included titled Fine-Tuning Your Figures

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