Assignment: Portfolio Income & costs and profit measures of performance Alibaba.com is a China’s B2B e-commerce company which owns a U.S. IPO that worth $25 billion has become the largest B2B e-commerce company in the world in just a few years and barely anyone expect the company can achieve this results so successful. Referring to the Appendix A, the income of Alibaba has been increasing from year 2010 to 2014. This is because of there has a few key factors of success that carried out by the founder
week’s assignment in currency conversion, I chose to convert the price of a pair of $105 jeans from U.S. Dollars to the Belizean dollar, the Euro and the Japanese Yen. The Euro had the closest value of the U.S. Dollar. $105 USD converts to 98.9415 EUR. 1 EUR = 1.06123 USD. The Belizean Dollar conversion came out to 211.067 BZD. 1 USD = 2.01016 BZD. The Japanese Yen had the largest difference in value of the three countries I chose from the U.S. Dollar. A $105 USD pair of jeans would cost
Persuasive essay Parents should be permissive Instantly, several parents are struggling to find a way to raise their children effectively. Permissive parenting is one of their choices. Being permissive is treating children with plenty of love, caring and nurturing but not much authorities, rules or punishments. They might make their children lack of self-control or aggressive, but alongside with these disadvantages, there are also numerous benefits. Permissive parenting helps children to be successful
Yes, it does matter if the link is fiber or microwave or some media. The reason for such an assumption is due to the fact the medium’s speed is getting varied. Usually the CAT 5 speed is 100mbps, hence fiber has the highest speed amongst others. Furthermore, Fiber and CAT 5 are full duplex, hence the reason for connecting these two locations, Fast ethernet or Giga bit ethernet ports switches are utilized. The Fast Ethernet specification defines separate physical sub-layers for each media type. Full-duplex
Off with the Head The penny is one of America 's most iconic coins, but yet people toss them once in their possession. Most thoughts about the penny are more negative than positive. Lewis, Mark’s passage (Source A) shows the reason is has not been banned yet. Kahn, Ric’s passage (Source B) explains the penny was only good in its prime, and now is wasting our time. Safire, William’s passage (Source C) spit straight fire saying that Lincoln would be “ashamed” to have his face on the penny, supporting
development of global economic globalization, many multinational companies have trade and investment in all parts of the world. Sometimes the business in a multinational company involves a variety of currencies.Multinational companies with a lot of foreign currency transactions often face the risk of exchange rate fluctuations. In order to manage exchange rate risk, hedging has become a strategy for many companies even the use of hedging will produce a certain cost. The report will discuss why foreign exchange
The main theory behind this research is mental accounting, established by economist Richard Thaler. Mental accounting is the set of cognitive operations used by individuals to organize, evaluate, and keep track of financial activities. Mental accounting does not, unlike other accounting ways, consist of numerous rules and conventions that have been codified over the years. We can learn about mental accounting only by observing behaviour and inferring the rules. The focus of the theory will be on
Big Mac Index - The Big Mac Index was devised by Pam Woodall of the Economist in 1986, a light-hearted guide to whether the currencies are at their “correct” level. It is based on one of the oldest concepts in International Economics, purchasing power parity PPP, the notion which says the dollar should buy the same amount of goods in all countries. Over the long-term currency exchange rates should equal the price of a basket of goods and services in different countries, presuming markets are functioning
This scandalous coinage, also known as the penny, is a lousy excuse for a currency and should be abandoned. The penny costs the American people precious time and money as they attempt to scour through their purse or wallet just for a 1 cent coin, which is having devastating effects on the economy. The obvious solution to this ordeal is removing the penny and rounding all prices to the nearest nickel. On the other side of the argument, people view this as an opportunity for businesses to charge extra
What is blockchain Technology? In general, the blockchain is part of an incorruptible distributed ledger that can be programmed to record financial transactions or virtually anything of value. The blockchain is the underlying technology upon which cryptocurrencies run on. Each member of the network has the original record on their computer and can view all entries and record new ones. Transactions are put into blocks, recorded one after the other to form a chain of blocks (the 'blockchain'). The
Hear that change jingling in my pocket? Good. I have two little questions for you. I have a quarter, a dime and a nickel. How much money DO I have? I have three coins. How much money COULD I have? The first question is a basic arithmetic problem with one and only one right answer. You might find it on a multiple-choice test. The second is an open-ended question with a number of different possible correct answers. It would lend itself to a wide-ranging debate over the details: Are these all American
Imagine receiving a check for one hundred thousand dollars and not having a pen to sign for it at the bank, the banker tells you there is no way to cash it and you and you are forced to walk away empty handed. Your pen is the most important instrument when writing, remembering, or communicating. When first starting a writing assignment, you can brainstorm all you want but nothing sticks in your head for very long until you pick up a pen and write it down. Your pen is like the friend that remembers
Graeber says, “States created markets, markets require states. Neither could continue without the other. In fact, we are told they are opposites, but it’s a false dichotomy.”(3) After all, both the views of Chartalism and Menger show that the currency had to be widely accepted to be valuable and beneficial to the economy as money. However, the main difference is that Chartalism believes a government entity created it, while Menger presumes people established it as a more logical method for the
Question 1 1.1 • Who is currently using your Gold credit card? • What is the market size? • What are the key features of your product/service? • How is the product/service currently perceived? • How do you want the product/service to be perceived? • What are the target markets’ expectations of the product/service? • Is it being used for its intended purpose? • How is the product/service differentiated from competitor offerings? • How accessible is the product/service? • What is the level/perceived
Lucy Wang Snavely AP World History Period 1 21 March 2016 Silver Article Summary In Born with a “Silver Spoon”: The Origin of World Trade in 1571, Flynn and Giráldez talk about global trade, silver, inflation, mining, etc. This article is controversial and contains statements that are different than the popular opinions that people often have. Silver was said to be the “product most responsible for the birth of world trade” and was considered valuable/profitable to various countries. China was the
There is the controversies of a debate between whether or not the penny should be stopped being made in the United States.But there is economically pros and cons of producing this coin known as the penny. Although, the penny has some pros, the cons outway the pros by a lot, which is because of what actually happens when processing the penny and to ust having the penny alone. To start with, Pennies are often not really used, they’re left, thrown away, and no one really has used them as they’re
an economics expert, but this is the probably first thing you'll be taught in economics after demand/supply curve. Currency prices works like an index of prosperity in the respective nation. So if you've higher valued currency, you're more developed than lower valued currencies. However you need to note that the economics works in a way to create a balance. So if value of a currency from developing country such as India (INR) is lower than USD, that means cheaper goods and services are available
When people take away the penny the cashiers that pay the consumers would not be able to pay the right amount of money.The the penny is a benefit to the economy because without the penny we can’t pay the right amount of change to the people.The penny is a big thing because it takes up a 5th of our money tax. In other words i think getting rid of the penny would be a big cause of money raised then the buyers and everyone else will start losing their jobs and homes.
If you lived in Argentina, you would earn 66.77% less than you would in the United States (“Argentina”). You could have the exact same job, doing the exact same work, for the exact same hours, but because of the state of Argentina’s economy, you would not make nearly as much money as you would in the United States. Although Argentina’s economy has been struggling for quite some time, it has the potential to improve. The root of the economic problems in Argentina trace back over 100 years. In 1913
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