was Alibaba Group’s motivation for diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao? Does it make sense? Alibaba group felt that it was under threat from eBay as eBay had a large market share in C2C business. Alibaba felt that eBay may go into the B2B business which Alibaba is in‚ and their business may be under threat. Hence Alibaba decided to go into the C2C business with Taobao to compete with eBay for the fear of eating into Alibaba business. It made sense because Taobao managed
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Business Communication OMGT 302 The Complete Effects of Decreased Full-Time Equivalencies on Budget and Productivity Review of the effects on organizations and employees when the workforce is reduced and workload is increased. 2012 Jess Hennessey Hewlett-Packard 1/1/2012 Business Communication OMGT 302 The Complete Effects of Decreased Full-Time Equivalencies on Budget and Productivity Review of the effects on organizations and employees when the workforce is reduced and workload
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COMPREHENSIVE PROBLEM 2 Music-Is-Us A mini-practice set illustrating numerous aspects of the accounting cycle for a merchandising business organized as a corporation. Students are expected to: (1) prepare a bank reconciliation‚ (2) make adjusting entries—including adjustments related to marketable securities‚ uncollectible accounts‚ inventory shrinkage‚ and depreciation‚ (3) prepare an income statement‚ a statement of retained earnings‚ and a balance sheet‚ and (4) assess the financial condition
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1) What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? The main role of intermediaries is to fill the information gap between the investors who wish to invest money for higher returns and companies who need financing. Role of Venture Capitalists: The main role of VC is to screen good business ideas from the bad ones‚ invest in a good firm and nurture them until the company exits through a trade sale or
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WorldCom: internal audit lessons to be learnt On June 9 2003‚ the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New York issued a report on the WorldCom accounting fraud that expands on the court’s earlier findings of mismanagement‚ lack of corporate governance‚ and concern regarding the integrity of the company’s accounting and financial reporting functions. Supervised by former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh‚ the study was commissioned by the court to investigate allegations including fraud‚ mismanagement
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Exam Notes Basic APA Style • In text o (Hill‚2013) quotation (Hill‚ 2013.p.145) Critical: Takes time and implies careful attention looking below the surface to find the motivation and context as well as what assumptions are involved and what is not there. Criticism: • A close analysis of a text resulting in evaluation. o A close analysis and judgment of something • Not always negative‚ you can evaluate a text and be positive. o Involves both positive negative or even neutral feedback
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Dot-com bubble The dot-com bubble was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1997 – 2000 (with a peak on March 10‚ 2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields. While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle‚ the Internet boom is sometimes meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the World Wide Web‚ as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic
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file of COM 220 Entire Course comprises: COM-220 Grammar Exercise 1.pdf COM-220 Grammar Exercise 2.pdf COM-220 Grammar Exercise 3.pdf COM-220 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT.doc COM-220 WEEK 1 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 WEEK 2 DQS.doc COM-220 WEEK 2 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 Week 3 Annotated Bibliography.doc COM-220 WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT.doc COM-220 WEEK 4 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 WEEK 4 DQS.doc COM-220 WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT.doc COM-220 WEEK 5 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 WEEK
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Friendship can mean so much to a person. You always hear about people saying that their soul mate is their boyfriend or husband but in some cases you hear people say that a girl friend is their soul mate and someone they tell everything to and share all life’s big moments with. In my case I do have that kind of friendship with my best friend Shelby Fullerton. Shelby is someone that has been there for me through all my trials that I have faced. We have had many times where we sit down and we just
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Jabong Jabong started in 2012 has grown into a huge entity with over 1000 brands listed in the site. Has been partnering with different companies‚ movie production houses and designers to launch exclusive dresses Has an International store called jabongworld.com where it sells the products in foreign currencies Has also won best launch of the year award and also ranks in top three in customer satisfaction. INKFRUIT Had a point system wherein points were awarded on various basis and these
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