Assignment 2 AU2 Advanced External Auditing Question 2 a) Three specific business strategies that explain eBay’s decision to offer good for sale at fixed prices: 1. Expand into New Markets: With the shrinking market of auction bidders on eBay and a growing market of fixed price buyers, customers may not prefer to go in the direction of purchasing goods in an online auction. Since, in an online auction the customer has to wait till the end of the auction to see which buyer
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eBay's mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything. Our Marketplace On an average day, there are millions of items listed on eBay. People come to the eBay marketplace to buy and sell items in thousands of categories including antiques and art, books, business & industrial, cars & other vehicles, clothing & accessories, coins, collectibles, crafts, dolls & bears, electronics & computers, home furnishings, jewelry & watches, movies & DVDs, music
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Table of Content No | Title | Page | Q1 | Why has eBay become successful and diverse online market place? a) What is eBay? Who is the founder?b) Success story of this company in diverse online marketplace i. How and why it become successful? ii. How eBay position itself in the E-commerce marketplace? | 9-11 | Q2 | Visit the eBay website (http://www.ebay.com) to help you answer, and check out their many trading categories, specialty sites, international sites, and other features
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Answer to eBay questions. 1. Five-force model: Potential entrants: relatively strong. The company is in an industry that is growing both locally and globally. Also the capital for launching an online website is very low. The bargaining power of buyers: weak to medium. The increasing buyer demand online is reducing the bargaining power of buyers. Competition from substitutes: very strong. There are many substitutes for eBay’s online services such as online retailers like amazon.com. The bargaining
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New Business Seller Guide Roadmap to Success July 2013 Action plan Ready: Start your engine q Register as a business on eBay and get access to exclusive services Go: Accelerate your sales q Experiment with a variety of formats q Write great titles with relevant keywords and describe items completely (including flaws) multiple angles on a neutral background Winner’s circle: Earn eBay Top Rated status and rewards q Complete 100 transactions with $1,000 in sales from US buyers least
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Business Development Tips 1. Identify the appropriate market and target the appropriate segments within the market -- Deep pockets; ability to leverage core product from one segment to another without major design/development changes. 2. Make sure there exists a market problem/pain that currently demands a solution. Is the problem large enough to justify the price of your solution? Is someone with P/L responsibility willing to pay for the solution? Test: Are you able to clearly delineate
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Memorandum To: Mario DiPonetti, ASIB From: Date: ------------------------------------------------- Re: Google Scholar Submitting Abstracts to Google Scholar Confidential Google Scholar requires some strict guidelines for inclusion. ASIB will need to ensure all documents are formatted correctly on their website to be considered for inclusion on Google Scholar. I have outlined some of the requirements below. For more detailed information on specific requirements, visit Google Scholars website
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included in this document are based on information available to us on the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to revise or publicly release any revision to any such forward-looking statement, except as may otherwise be required by law. Item 1. Business About us Netflix Inc. (“Netflix”, “the Company”, “we”, or “us”) is the world’s leading Internet subscription service for enjoying TV shows and movies. Our subscribers can instantly watch unlimited TV shows and movies streamed over the Internet
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March 2012: M plc Question a i. Evaluate the risks to M plc associated with allowing subscribers to post comments and views on the newspaper website. M plc is a long established publisher of newspapers and provider of web media. Based on their mission statement, their reputation is depending on the quality of report and information. The quality of information referred to truthful and accurate information given by M plc to the readers. The online version of newspaper that allows subscriber
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private sector participation to 45% while noting that participation of government is concentrated in government agencies concerned senior management of the activities of the state and the private sector participation is distributed to the general business activities and various productive and service while we find that personal involvement is limited among university qualifications and higher levels. Seen through our follow to use the Internet in different activities that the presence of the commercial
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