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3 years ago

Alibaba and China’s ECommerce: Reality Bites

Business

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lesya692 [45]3 years ago

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Answer:

EBay lost out because they did not have the right strategy, and were unwilling to incorporate Chinese local content in their process.

Explanation:

Strategy

With regards to strategy, while Ali baba gave local producers freedom to upload their goods on their platform at zero cost; Ebay charged fees from local manufacturers/producers of item for uploading unto their digital platform.

Over confidence

EBay had experienced success in western countries, hence it was unwilling to incorporate Chinese local content in it's process. EBay's server and IT team were based outside China, and this sometimes made their digital platform in China slow, costly and not user friendly like Alibaba.

LESSON TO BE LEARNT

LOCAL CONTENT

Non Chinese e commerce giants like Amazon, needs to ensure that they incorporate Chinese local content in their process, to enable them survive in the Chinese market space.

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Answer:

2017 = $2,598 and 2018 = $10,390

Explanation:

The computation of the depreciation expense for the second year is shown below:

= (Original cost - residual value) ÷ (useful life)

= ($80,010 - $7,280) ÷ (7 years)

= ($72,730) ÷ (7 years)

= $10,390

In this method, the depreciation is same for all the remaining useful life

For 2017, the depreciation expense would be

= $10,390 × 3 months ÷ 12 months

= $2,598

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And, in 2018 it would be $10,390

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3 years ago

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Answer:

a-1. Total cash collection for the Quarter Ending March 31, 2022 = $336,000

a-2. Total cash payment for the Quarter Ending March 31, 2022 = $43,400

b-1. Account receivable balance = $68,000

b-2. Account payable balance = $7,200

Explanation:

Note: This question is not complete and contains different dates (2017 and 2022). The complete question is therefore provided and 2022 is picked as the date before answering the question. See the attached pdf file for the complete question with 2022 as the date.

The explanation of the answer is now given as follows:

a-1. Schedule of expected cash collections from clients.

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Total cash collection for the Quarter Ending March 31, 2022 = $336,000

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3 years ago

What are the issues of integrity, ethics and law posed in the case study? What options does the woman have, and what should she

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The integrity, ethics, and law issues raised in the case study are illegal and unethical conduct.

The woman must reject the economic proposal made by the company and maintain her complaint so that the executive is judged for what she did because she would avoid future harm to other employees.

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What are the issues of integrity, ethics and law posed in the case study? What options does the woman have, and what should she do and why?

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Some of the issues raised by this case study include initial issues of unethical and unlawful conduct, by the executive and the company; whether the company should allow the executive to continue working because of the revenue he generates, in view of his propensity to harm co-workers, and whether this action is ethical or reflects integrity; whether the company should require the woman to state that the executive did nothing wrong as part of the settlement agreement; whether the woman should agree to this settlement in view of the harm future employees are being exposed to; and whether the woman is prioritising justice for herself over harm to future employees in an acceptable way.

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In the past year, TVG had revenues of $2.95 million, cost of goods sold of $2.45 million, and depreciation expense of $178,000.

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Answer:

3.5

Explanation:

Computation for the firm’s times interest earned ratio

Revenues$ 2.95 million

Cost of goods sold$ 2.45 million

Depreciation expense$ 178,000.00

Book values of Debt outstanding$ 1.15 million

Interest rate8.00

First step is to calculate for the EBIT

Using this formula

EBIT= Revenues -(Cost of goods sold +Depreciation expense$ 178,000.00)

EBIT=$2,950,000-($2,450,000+$178,000)

EBIT=$2,950,000- $2,628,000

EBIT=$322,000

Second step is to find the Interest

Using this formula

Interest =Debt outstanding with book value ×Interest rate

Let plug in the formula

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Now let find the firm’s times interest earned ratio

Using this formula

Firm’s times interest earned ratio=EBIT/INTEREST

Where,

EBIT=$322,000

INTEREST=$92,000

Let plug in the formula

Firm’s times interest earned ratio=$322,000/$92,000

Firm’s times interest earned ratio =3.5

Therefore the firm’s times interest earned ratio will be 3.5

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