OPTIMAL SERVICE PRICING FOR A CLOUD CACHE OPTIMAL SERVICE PRICING FOR A CLOUD CACHE ABSTRACT: Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data‚ paying the price for the infrastructure they use. Cloud management necessitates an economy that manages the service of multiple users in an efficient‚ but also‚ resource economic way that allows for cloud profit
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1. " Global Transfer Pricing: A Practical Guide for Managers "‚ Ralph Drtina‚ Jane L. Reimers‚ S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal‚ v74n2‚ Spring 2009. Transfer Pricing Article Summary The authors give a beneficial guide for managers for selecting and implementing a transfer pricing policy. According to the article‚ transfer pricing are the amounts charged for goods and services exchanged between divisions of the same company. In a multinational company strict international tax laws regulate
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promotion one year ago for their Mortgage Protector Policy‚ which cut interest rates to provide against customer’s demise. This leads to a range of interest rates very competitive with the competitors’. According to The long-term effect of Marketing Strategy on Brand Sales‚ some research show that there is a positive effect of discounts on the sales level because a higher number of people buy the product (purchase reinforcement)‚ but some others are more pessimistic and found a negative correlation between
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Compare and contrast CAPM and APT? Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and arbitrage pricing theory (APT) are both methods of assessing an investment’s risk in relation to its potential reward and whether the potential investment yield is worthwhile. CAPM developed by Sharpe 1964. The basic theory behind this model is that investor needs to be compensated for Time Value of Money and the risk that they are taking. The time value of money is represented by the risk-free (rf) rate in
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For the exclusive use of W. Zhou‚ 2015. MH0023 0 0 7 7645065 MARNE L. ART HAUD- DAY FRA NK T. ROT HAE RME L Best Buy’s Turn-Around Strategy (2013) CEO HUBERT JOLY BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF as he reviewed the 2012 end-of-year holiday revenue figures for Best Buy. After perhaps the most tumultuous year ever in the life of the company‚ he knew the numbers could be much worse. Despite being the world’s largest retailer of consumer electronics with $50 billion in annual sales‚ Best Buy’s financial
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Transfer Pricing in India 1. Introduction Increasing participation of multi-national groups in economic activities in India has given rise to new and complex issues emerging from transactions entered into between two or more enterprises belonging to the same group. Hence‚ it was pertinent to introduce a uniform and internationally accepted mechanism of determining reasonable‚ fair and equitable profits and tax in India in the case of such multinational enterprises. Accordingly‚ the Finance
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In the News By: Geovani Flores BUSN-412 Week 2 There is an article in the news regarding the pricing of milk over the last couple of years. According to this article milk sales set records in 2014‚ but due to plummeting prices dairy farmers are due to take a huge loss. The issue here is that in 2014 dairy farmers could hardly keep up with the demand of milk so prices were really high. Dairy farmers were forced to do whatever they could to produce more milk to keep up with the demand. This included
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Turing’s stunt and decide try to make a profit by selling its own generic version of Daraprim for a cheaper price. Since it’s clearly the best drug every companies will try to produce it and sell it with lower price so it’s a competition. Prescription pricing is a strange thing to stir such rage‚ however. After all‚ Daraprim‚ the drug in question‚ is not widely used. It treats a potentially deadly condition called toxoplasmosis that primarily affects people with compromised immune systems‚ such as newborns
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Mary Kay is a privately held company which is engaged in direct sales of skin and color cosmetics products The company operates in more than 35 countries . Its headquarters is in Dallas Texas. It employs more than 4500 people. The company generates more than $3‚000 million annually. Mary Kay is a privately held company and does not publish its financial statements. Strengths Mary Kay’s products are scientifically created and is approved by the FDA to clean‚ protect and enhance the skin. Product
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video: Ford’s Global Auto Strategy Running time 5 minutes. Available from ABC News A good film to use as part of lecture on Chapter 2: Global Enterprise [which lecture?] This short film describes Ford’s big gamble in the auto industry to develop a global car on the same platform worldwide. The auto is the Contour in the U.S. or the Mercury Mystique; in Europe it has been very successful as the Mondeo. The narrator explains the auto is to be sold in 60 countries yet remain responsive to local
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