...9-508-111 REV: JUNE 24, 2009 ANITA ELBERSE JASON BERGSMAN Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (B) From the moment Radiohead announced its “name-your-own-price” model for the release of its new album In Rainbows, there was wild speculation about how consumers would react. The first insights emerged from the research company comScore. Through a panel of around 2 million people worldwide who allowed their online behavior to be tracked, comScore observed nearly 1,000 visitors to the In Rainbows site. Based on those data, the company estimated that 1.2 million people had visited the site during the first 29 days of October. Using several hundred actual transactions that it had recorded, comScore estimated that two out of every five downloaders had paid for the album, leading to an average price of $6 across this group (see Table A). Table A Radiohead’s In Rainbows: Estimated Online Album Download Statistics U.S. Percent of People Who Paid for Download Percent of People Who Downloaded for Free Average Amount Spent per Paid Download Average Amount Spent per (Paid or Free) Download 40% 60% $8.05 $3.23 Non-U.S. 36% 64% $4.64 $1.68 Worldwide 38% 62% $6.00 $2.26 Source: comScore. Of those who downloaded the album, 62% paid nothing. However, 17% paid between $0.01 and $4.00; 6% paid between $4.01 and $8.00; 12% paid between $8.01 and $12.00; and 4% paid between $12.01 and $20 (with each group accounting for 8%, 12%, 52%, and 27% of the total revenues, respectively). Exhibit...
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...Case 0:05-cv-00668-RHK-JSM Document 61 Filed 02/07/2006 Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Stacy Lawton Guin, Plaintiff, v. Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation, Inc., Defendant. Civ. No. 05-668 (RHK/JSM) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER John H. Goolsby and Thomas J. Lyons Jr., Consumer Justice Center, Little Canada, Minnesota; Thomas J. Lyons, Lyons Law Firm, P.A., Little Canada, Minnesota, for Plaintiff. Courtney M. Rogers Reid and Matthew E. Johnson, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Defendant. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Stacy Guin alleges that Defendant Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation, Inc. (“Brazos”) negligently allowed an employee to keep unencrypted nonpublic customer data on a laptop computer that was stolen from the employee’s home during a burglary on September 24, 2004. This matter comes before the Court on Brazos’s Motion for Summary Judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56. For the reasons set forth below, the Court will grant the Motion. BACKGROUND Case 0:05-cv-00668-RHK-JSM Document 61 Filed 02/07/2006 Page 2 of 14 Brazos, a non-profit corporation with headquarters located in Waco, Texas, originates and services student loans. (Villarrial Aff. ¶ 2.) Brazos has approximately 365 employees, including John Wright, who has worked as a financial analyst for the company since November 2003. (Villarrial Aff. ¶ 2; Wright Aff. ¶ 1.) Wright works...
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...ID 1 2 3 4 5 6 Task Mode Task Name Duration Pilot Angel Project Initialize & Conceptualize Phase 1 Business Case Project Charter & Plan Phase 2 Charter and Plan Page 1 50 days 1 day 1 day 1 day 1 day ID 7 8 9 10 11 12 Task Mode Task Name Duration Milestone: Planning Complete Execute & Control Phase 3 Analysis Collect Information & Requirements Admissions & Requirements Plan Design Page 2 0 days 48 days 1 day 1 day 1 day 4 days ID 13 14 15 16 17 18 Task Mode Task Name Duration System Design Plan Interface Design Milestone: Design Complete Construction Database Creation User Interface Creation Page 3 4 days 3 days 0 days 24 days 4 days 3 days ID 19 20 21 22 23 24 Task Mode Task Name Duration Program Operational Functions Pilot Records Plane Records Patient & Passenger Records Flight Records Medical Facility Records Page 4 17 days 4 days 4 days 4 days 4 days 4 days ID 25 26 27 28 29 30 Task Mode Task Name Duration Reporting Features Milestone: System Creation Testing Test Plan Create Test Plan Approve Test Plan Page 5 1 day 0 days 28 days 26 days 2 days 1 day ID 31 32 33 34 35 36 Task Mode Task Name Duration Create Testing Environment System Test Analyze Results MOV Evaluation Approve Results Milestone: System Fully Functional Page 6 2 days 1 day 2 days 1 day 1 day 0 days ID 37 38 39 40 41 42 Task Mode Task Name Duration Implementation Training Create...
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...Session Plan: Managerial Economics Text Book: Pindyck, Rubinfield & Mehta, 7th Edition |Session Number|Topics Covered |Identified Cases |Readings |Source |Date | | |Fundamental Problems of An Economic System: Scarcity and Efficiency | | |1 & 2 |Introduction to Managerial Economics, Micro and Macro |1. Switzerland, Cuba and India: The Troika of Economic Problems in Three |Chapter-1 |CDC | | | |Economics |Economies |(Pindyck) | | | | |Production Possibility Frontier And Curves | | | |15-06-‘11 | | | | | | |17-06-‘11 | | |Partial And General Equilibrium | | | | ...
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...intelligence and training delivered by industry experts. If your objective is to enrich your own skill set, or support the development of your team through investment in training, so that their enhanced knowledge increases operational efficiency and contributes to your company’s long-term success, we are committed to providing outstanding development solutions. Full details of our comprehensive training programmes, which have been specifically created for the private equity & venture capital industry, follow. For further information or to book your place, please telephone the BVCA training team on +44 (0) 20 7420 1800 to discuss your needs. CPD points available on all BVCA programmes. Visit www.bvca.co.uk/training/cpd for details. • Use of case studies and participative break-out sessions to ensure skills can be directly applied • Courses for every level of experience: from foundation through to advanced • Highly participative courses to enable sharing of best practice and...
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...RICE PRODUCTION IN INDIA AND FACTORS AFFECTING ITS PRODUCTIVITY INTORDUCTION: Oryza Sativa, it is believed, is associated with wet, humid climate. The rice plant may have originated in southern India, then spread to the north of the country and then onwards to China. It then arrived in Korea, the Philippines and then Japan and Indonesia. India is one of the world's largest producers of white rice and brown rice, accounting for 20% of all world rice production. Rice is India's pre-eminent crop, and is the staple food of the people of the eastern and southern parts of the country. Rice is one of the chief grains of India. Moreover, this country has the biggest area under rice cultivation, as it is one of the principal food crops. It is in fact the dominant crop of the country. Rice is the basic food crop and being a tropical plant, it flourishes comfortably in hot and humid climate. Rice is mainly grown in rain fed areas that receive heavy annual rainfall. That is why it is fundamentally a kharif crop in India. It demands temperature of around 25 degree Celsius and above and rainfall of more than 100 cm. Rice is also grown through irrigation in those areas that receives comparatively less rainfall. Indian rice production largely depends on monsoon rains and only 59 per cent rice area has assured irrigation. So monsoon’s performance also plays an important role in the productivity. LITERATURE REVIEW: The importance of the study is evident as several papers that made a detailed...
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...Toy Company | To: | Chief Executive Officer | From: | | CC: | Company Attorney | Date: | 10/18/2014 | Re: | Constructive Discharge and Title VII | Comments: | This memo will explain: A) constructive discharge B) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as it relates to this particular complaint and in general C) recommendations for how the company should respond and also changes to avoid issues with Title VII in the future. | | | A: Constructive Discharge Constructive discharge is legally defined as “forcing an employee to resign by making the work environment so intolerable that a reasonable person would not be able to stay” (Prohibited Employment Policies/Practices, n.d.). Constructive discharge is usually recognized within the framework of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII as an illegal employment practice and is considered a form of wrongful termination (Prohibited Employment Policies/Practices, n.d.), even though it is the employee resigning from their position, as opposed to termination by the employer. An employee has filed a claim against the Toy Company under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The employee is using constructive discharge as her complaint in regards to the Toy Company recently changing the production department work schedules. The company implemented a new policy in the production employees’ shift to four days on, four days off shift rotation schedule policy, as...
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...explored in Investments and/or Finance. This course is aimed at students wishing to acquire a sound understanding of the main opportunities in international investments. For example, the relevance of hedging in the management of currency risk will be studied in light of theoretical results and empirical evidence. We will also briefly cover foreign direct investment (FDI), since in general, the revenue generated from FDI by U.S. firms is about three times as large as the revenue generated from the exporting of U.S. goods by U.S. firms. Due to the ever increasing importance of international corporate governance, there is a corresponding need to decipher and use information in financial reports. At least one class meeting and one case study will touch on some key issues in international financial reporting and analysis, such as financial disclosure/transparency, incentives for off-balance sheet liabilities, hedge accounting, lease accounting, footnote disclosures, and intercorporate equity investments, and international financial reporting differences. We will also use many real-life examples from market practices to emphasize the engineering dimensions of financial contract design (financial engineering), that market practitioners professionalize by blending theory with practice. Real financial contract examples will be discussed along with the relevant sections of the Levich text during the...
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...| E-Vade Pays Up | | Case 14-07 | | E-Vade Pays Up | | Case 14-07 | Accounting Seminar Professor: Evangelina vives, phd, cpa, Jd March 14, 2016 Prepared by: Maria Catoni Accounting Seminar Professor: Evangelina vives, phd, cpa, Jd March 14, 2016 Prepared by: Maria Catoni E-Vade Pays Up Case 14-07 E-Vade Pays Up is an online retailer who offers its products to all 50 states. The company is not present physically in any of the states, but does operate distribution centers in some states across the country and does not collect and remit sales tax on sales made in each state. Recently in a court ruling in State X subject all distribution centers within the state to collect and remit sales tax on all sales within the state. E-Vade has a distribution center in State X, therefore, must collect and remit sales tax on all sales within the state. Evade estimated the total amount $60 million of payable to State X for the past five years which includes $50 million for sales tax due, $6 million in interest and $4 million in penalties as of December 31, 2011. On March 15 of 2011 an amnesty program was approved by governor Needmoney providing incentive to voluntary registration to unregistered taxpayers forgiving all interest and penalties on unpaid taxes and 50% of all unpaid sales tax. E-Vade’s management decides to take advantage of the program and completes registration on June 15, 2012. With the amnesty, E-Vade settles its obligation by paying...
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...| |UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN (UTAR) | | |FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE (FBF) | | |Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting | Unit Plan | | | | | |Unit Code & |UBAF 2023 AUDITING | | |Unit Title: | | | | | | | |Course of Study: |Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting | | | | | | |Year...
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...01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 Step 7 A Judge Is Assigned to Hear the Case ❖ 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 N 30 L In the previous two chapters, we learned about the two attorneys in the courtroom drama, the prosecutor and the defense attorney. In this chapter, we turn our attention to the third member of the courtroom work group, the judge. We will learn what judges do and how they become judges. Then, we will look at judges’ discretion and how it affects their relationships with others. INTRODUCTION Judges are by far the most easily recognized member of the courtroom work group, both by their conspicuous robes and by their prominent position in the courtroom. They are also the subject of many stereotypes because the public wants to believe that judges combine patience, wisdom, and compassion to arrive at fair decisions, while they eschew the character flaws that sometimes form the basis of decisions by others, including prejudice, intolerance, favoritism, and hostility. Unfortunately, judges are human and their decisions occasionally reflect such a reality. One West Virginia judge, for example, became so enraged at a defendant who began cursing at him in court that he jumped down from his bench, tore off his judicial robe, and bit the tip off the defendant’s nose (Smith, 1998). He served five days in jail on state assault...
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...[pic] College of Humanities HUM 186 Course Syllabus Media Influences on American Culture 6 – 10 p.m. Tuesdays Course Start Date: 06/14/2011 Course End Date: 07/12/2011 University of Phoenix South Florida Campus Miami Learning Center 11410 NW 20th Street, Miami, FL 33172 Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright © 2011, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix® is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft®, Windows®, and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix® editorial standards and practices. Course Description The course provides an introduction to the most prominent forms of media that influence and impact social, business, political...
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...Issue Date | Effective Date | Subject | 16-Jul-15 | 01-Aug-15 | Panel of Auditors of BSEC | 14-Jul-15 | 21-Jul-15 | BSEC makes amendments of Directive No. BSEC/Surveillance/2014-0840/683 dated July 14, 2015 | 08-Jul-15 | 08-Jul-15 | Amendment of the Order No. SEC/CMRRCD/2009-193/104/Admin/26 dated July 27, 2011 | 08-Jul-15 | 08-Jul-15 | Conversion guideline for close-end to open-end mutual fund | 30-Jun-15 | 30-Jun-15 | Order for Extension of Suspension of Rule 3(5) of the Margin Rules 1999 | 30-Jun-15 | 30-Jun-15 | Regarding the maintenance of provision against unrealized losses arising from investment in mutual fund units | 22-Jun-15 | 22-Jun-15 | Gazette of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (Alternative Investment) Rules, 2015 | 11-Jun-15 | 11-Jun-15 | Exemption to the foreign owned companies and the joint venture companies with foreign investment form the compliance of the Commission's Notification No. SEC/CMRRCD/2006-159/36/Admin/03-44 dated May 5, 2010 | 14-May-15 | 14-May-15 | Directive regarding distribution of dividend, fractional bonus share and rights share to the margin accountholders of the stock brokers | 13-May-15 | 17-May-15 | Order regarding circuit breaker (here it is given the upward and downward price limit of the reference price) | 04-Mar-15 | 04-Mar-15 | Repeal Directive No. SEC/SRMIC/2007-18/1178/270 dated October 12, 2011 | 02-Feb-15 | 02-Feb-15 | IPO approval Procedure | 27-Jan-15 | 27-Jan-15 | Directive No. BSEC/Enforcement/2137/2014/20 dated...
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...Associates is a specialist foreign direct investment practice, providing corporate establishment, business advisory, tax advisory and compliance, accounting, payroll, due diligence and financial review services to multinationals investing in emerging Asia. 053e .FM Page 1 Thursday, April 6, 2006 12:07 PM LAWS OF MALAYSIA REPRINT Act 53 INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006 PUBLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION , MALAYSIA UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT 1968 IN COLLABORATION WITH MALAYAN LAW JOURNAL SDN BHD AND PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BHD 2006 053e .FM Page 2 Thursday, April 6, 2006 12:07 PM 2 INCOME TAX ACT 1967 First enacted … … … … … 1967 (Act No. 47 of 1967) Revised … … … … … 1971 (Act 53 w.e.f. 21 October 1971) … PREVIOUS REPRINTS First Reprint … … … … … 1980 Second Reprint … … … … 1993 Third Reprint … … … … … 2002 PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY MALAYAN LAW JOURNAL SDN BHD AND PRINTED BY PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BERHAD KUALA LUMPUR BRANCH 2006 053e .FM Page 3 Thursday, April 6, 2006 12:07 PM 3 LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 53 INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART I PRELIMINARY Section 1. Short title and commencement 2. Interpretation PART II IMPOSITION AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TAX 3. Charge of income tax 3A. (Deleted) 3B. Non-chargeability...
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...This case study analysis serves the purpose to evaluate Amazon’s unique approach to service marketing which creates satisfied and loyal customer base and to estimate its international expansion. Amazon is one of the most customer oriented companies in the world, which is essential for e-tailor business as the competitor is only one click away. With its main focus on customer experience, it offers wide variety of merchandise, lowest price and convenience. This three ‘customer experience pillars’ supported by a foundation of innovation build the center of Amazon main strategy (Figure 1). Innovation Figure1: Amazon’s Customer Experience Pillars [5] Let’s have a closer look at each item: 1) The variety and availability of items on site is one of the biggest advantages of e-bookstore in over a regular one. Since there is no limit for shelf space it can offer not only top-sellers but also very unique slow-moving items. shipment within 24 hours. 2) The fairness and competitiveness of overall price is achieved by offering the lowest prices for the most popular products, with less popular products commanding higher prices and a Most of the company products are available for Convenience Selection Price greater margin for Amazon. Free shipping is offered for all orders over a certain amount of money and is used to encourage increase in basket size. 3) Customer convenience could be subdivided into: a) web site functionality or the ease of use of the site itself, which was...
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