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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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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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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government intervention. In line with this‚ the researchers ought to know if Meralco has really an absolute control over the output produced and therefore charge the highest price to increase their profit. They also want to know the basis of pricing per kilowatt hour (kWh) and how do they implemented this to their consumer. II.
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Notes on Pricing Decisions In this note‚ we will discuss the pricing of a given product or a service. We will only discuss the pricing of an individual product/service and not the pricing across a set of products in a product line. Thus in the discussion that follows‚ we assume that the pricing decision of the product/service under consideration has no bearing on the profitability of other products/services in the portfolio of the firm. 1. Overview of the Pricing Decision: While making
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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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pricers with their papers published in 1973. According to the Black Scholes model‚ the price path of stocks is defined by the following stochastic partial differential equation The development of a transparent and reasonably robust options pricing model underpinned the transformational growth of the options market over the decades to follow. dS = (r - q -1/2sigma^2)dt + sigma dz In this document the key assumptions of the Black Scholes model are defined‚ the analytical solutions to
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Four Types of Pricing Objectives Price is a vital component of a marketing mix‚ also known as the "four Ps" of marketing. The other components are product‚ place and promotion‚ all of which constitute costs. Price‚ on the other hand‚ generates a return as it supports the other marketing-mix elements. Although supply and demand drive pricing decisions‚ they’re not the only factors. Any number of pricing objectives may come into play‚ but four in particular apply to most businesses. Survival
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