Figure 16 Sept 2026From “What is price-volume-mix analysis? Separate price from what was sold”

The signed effects in a synthetic PVM bridge

A reconciled bridge keeps price, volume, mix, new product, and discontinued product effects signed and visible. Every value is synthetic.

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Figure 1The signed effects in a synthetic PVM bridge

Source: Author's synthetic bridge grounded in Variance Works (2026). The method source supplies the bounded five-effect bridge and exact-reconciliation rule; line values, formulas, and owner routing are author synthesis.

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C VWM26-C1 "price volume and mix analysis how to explain a revenue gap": a vendor method page, walking from baseline revenue to current revenue through named effectsVariance Works. (2026). Price volume and mix analysis explained captured 2026-09-06
C VWM26-C2 "for each product sold in both periods the price change multiplied by the units sold today valuing it at current volumes is a convention": the page says so itself: a convention, not a lawVariance Works. (2026). Price volume and mix analysis explained captured 2026-09-06
C VWM26-C3 The same page states the arithmetic constraint: "the effects must add up to the observed change exactly if they do not the bridge is wrong and should say so"Variance Works. (2026). Price volume and mix analysis explained captured 2026-09-06
C VWM26-C4 The five effects are enumerated on the page, beginning "the five effects price effect what changed because you sold at different prices"Variance Works. (2026). Price volume and mix analysis explained captured 2026-09-06
B T03-OWN-C5 The synthetic lines A, B, C, and D move baseline revenue from 3,300 to current revenue of 3,420 with effects of price +60, volume +300, mix -300, new product +360, discontinued -300, and residual 0Author synthetic reconciliation
B T03-OWN-C10 Owner routing should follow the effect and its dimension: price to pricing or sales operations, volume to demand or capacity, mix to assortment or segment, and new or discontinued lines to portfolio or product ownersAuthor operating framework

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Pricing & revenue architecture

What is price-volume-mix analysis? Separate price from what was sold

Price-volume-mix analysis reconciles a period change into price, volume, mix, new, and discontinued lines before a team assigns an explanation.

6 Sept 2026

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Isoglu, S. (2026). The signed effects in a synthetic PVM bridge [Figure]. isoglu.com. https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-price-volume-mix-analysis-fig04/

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@misc{isoglu-2026-what-is-price-volume-mix-analysis-fig04,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{The signed effects in a synthetic PVM bridge}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Figure 1, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-price-volume-mix-analysis-fig04/},
  note = {From the essay {What is price-volume-mix analysis? Separate price from what was sold}}
}

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