Aug 11, 2013 22:40
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Italian term

marginalistica

Italian to English Bus/Financial Finance (general) accounts
Just standard company accounts:

"studio e sperimentazioni per introdurre nuove procedure per la gestione della marginalistica con particolare attenzione all'integrazione tra la marginalistica e gli aspetti contabili per le chiusure mensili"

Surely nothing to do with 'Marginalism' the economic theory...?!
Proposed translations (English)
3 +4 margins
4 marginality/marginal concepts
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Aug 12, 2013 11:58: Daniela Zambrini changed "Term asked" from "marginalistica (in company accounts)" to "marginalistica "

Proposed translations

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Italian term (edited): marginalistica (in company accounts)
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margins

I would say this is simply about margins which, depending on the context, may refer to a couple of things:

1. usually in Italian the term "marginalità" is used when referring to profit margins and profitability - hence, marginalistica may refer to the calculation/managment of profit margins

here some refs. for this concept:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/profitmargin.asp

http://www.mw-net.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...


http://www.isi.mc.it/pages_pdf/procbase.pdf:

"Analisi Marginalistica: Questa procedura permette di creare per ciascun prodotto una tabella di correlazione in cui
confluiscono tutti i costi, secondo lo schema che si èdeciso di adottare.Nella fase di previsione, si può lavorare contemporaneamente per la determinazione del prezzo di vendita ottimale sulla base di un margine atteso, e
viceversa all'elaborazione del margine risultante rispetto ad un prezzo "imposto" dal mercato.Al momento del
consuntivo, oltre al calcolo del margine del prodotto effettivamente conseguito, èpossibile realizzare rilevazioni
tramite varie correlazioni di valori e parametri con il fine di evidenziare caratteristiche e fenomeni importanti per le
decisioni strategiche legate alle vendite ed all'ambito commerciale e di marketing."

2. alternatively, margin may be used in the sense of putting up margin in trading transactions -
in this case marginalistica would refer to the managing of these margins

http://www.investopedia.com/university/margin/margin1.asp

confidence is medium because the context does not make clear which of these two situations apply

Peer comment(s):

agree Thomas Roberts
34 mins
thank you Thomas
agree philgoddard : Good answer.
7 hrs
thank you Phil
agree Margaret M Mahoney : I've had problems with this word, too. It seems to have many English translations.
1 day 33 mins
agree Rosanna Palermo
1 day 9 hrs
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Italian term (edited): marginalistica (in company accounts)

marginality/marginal concepts

I think it suits well

"Some important marginal concepts (see link below)

The marginal use of a good or service is the specific use to which an agent would put a given increase, or the specific use of the good or service that would be abandoned in response to a given decrease.[2]

The marginal utility of a good or service is the utility of the specific use to which an agent would put a given increase in that good or service, or of the specific use that would be abandoned in response to a given decrease. In other words, marginal utility is the utility of the marginal use.

The marginal rate of substitution is the rate of substitution is the least favorable rate, at the margin, at which an agent is willing to exchange units of one good or service for units of another.

A marginal benefit is a benefit (howsoever ranked or measured) associated with a marginal change.

The term “marginal cost” may refer to an opportunity cost at the margin, or to marginal pecuniary cost — that is to say marginal cost measured by forgone money.

Other marginal concepts include (but are not limited to):
•marginal physical product (sometimes also known as “marginal product”)
•marginal rate of transformation, the rate at which one output or result must be sacrificed in order to increase another output or result
•marginal revenue product
•marginal propensity to save and consume
•marginal tax rate "

marginalism, as you said, is the use of marginal concepts to explain economic phenomena.
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