Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Based on what you’ve learned from the readings, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using venture capital as startup funding for a business.Describe what approach you would recommend for the client by using the information you researched.

Toni Morrison Corporation begins business on March 1, 2019. The corporation reports startup expenditures of $56,000 all incurred last year. Determine the total amount that Toni Morrison Corporation can elect to deduct in 2019 (round your answer)

Jeremy Moon, the founder of Icebreaker, is committed to having his company embrace "ethical business practices". Identify some of those ethical business practices. Are you surprised that they produce their products in China?

Could you please recommend some thesis statements, Research questions, problem statements for my MBA Thesis,

Topic: Block chain Technology

Starting with various types of cryptocurrencies

Q5. What is the role and importance of market analysis in marketing planning?

(Please the Expert needs to submit a detailed answer which must be a standout in a very competitive MBA Marketing Class).

the ideal response to this discussion?

The startup I chose is called Fast. In partnership with vendors, Fast is designed to allow users to skip filling out their address, credit card information, and phone number every time they make an online purchase (“Fast”, n.d.). The goal of Fast is to allow one-click checkout for all online stores (Gagne, 2020). Its first product, Fast Checkout, launched last month (Gagne, 2020). Users create an account and are able to pay with one click when they are logged in and shopping from one of Fast’s partner websites. The business model hypothesis for Fast appears to be: We provide one-click checkout for users of partner websites where buyers would need to enter all of their billing information otherwise. Our customers are online shoppers who want the one-click purchasing experience of Amazon on other websites. Our dedicated e-commerce website allows customers to register for an account. We will develop customer relationships through online sales of our products. We will generate revenue through service charges associated with our products. In order to succeed, we will need qualified personnel, cybersecurity measures, and intellectual property. We will need to be partnered with popular online sellers. We will seek out partnerships with online sellers in order to provide our service on those sites. With $22.5 million in funding, we will need to invest in partner relationships (“Fast”, n.d.). I think that Fast is in the search stage, because they are still testing and proving their initial hypotheses. They are still in search of the right business model. In the execution stage, an established company knows its “customers, problems, and necessary product features...” (Blank & Dorf, 2020, p.11). On the other hand, Fast is still trying to figure these things out.

You are 20 years old and have completed your BBA and want to pursue further education but you don’t want to take money from your father. Your plan is to start working and earn enough money so that you can finance your degree on your own and get yourself enrolled in five years’ time. You estimate that the annual cost of doing an MBA 5 years from today will be PKR 400,000 and the program will be two years long. You will need the money at the beginning your program so that you are not worried about how to clear your dues during your studies. Luckily you go for a job interview and they hire you and you start working at a salary of PKR 25,000. So you decide that 50% you will deposit in a saving account at a 10% rate with monthly compounding for your further studies and the remaining amount you will use for your daily expenses.

1. Will you be able to meet your goal at this current saving rate?
2. What percentage of your salary should you save if you want to have exactly your university expenses amount?
3. How would your answer to part 1 change if the saving account rate changed to 5%? Comment on your answer.

      4. If you are given an option to invest at the 10% saving rate with monthly compounding or 10.5% semiannual compounding, which would you chose? Explain your answer.

Important note: *kindly do make sure that you have read the question properly because there is a confusion in question regarding Its 2 years MBA or 5 years MBA. The calculation is based on the time period of MBA program*.

Assume that you are on an audit team reviewing the purchase price calculations for accounting treatment of a recently completed acquisition of a target entity. The following are background facts:

The acquirer and target are both in the pharmaceutical industry. The target has been a startup that has been in business for about three years. Its activities have focused on the development of drugs treating Alzheimer's conditions. The founders of the company have raised equity capital for the company primarily through sale of Preferred stock. The company has a modest amount of debt associated with the purchase of computers and laboratory equipment.

The startup has gathered some of the brightest scientists in the field who joined the target because of their interest in the specific research areas, and their desire to benefit financially from the stock options provided to them by the startup entity.

News releases by the acquirer note the following:

• The target company currently has no sales revenue.
• Non-compete agreements have been signed by the three founders of the company and detailed valuation reports have been reviewed by the auditors and found appropriate to support their valuation at $15 million total.
• The company headquarters are located in Los Angeles about a mile from the USC campus
• The carrying value of the assets of the target company are $20 million
• Before a drug is allowed to be made available for sale, five stages (levels) of approvals need be acquired from the Federal Drug Administration agency.
• The target company has 15 drugs under development and in various stages of FDA approval
• The typical percentage of drugs receiving full approval by the FDA maybe in the range of 15% of those initially submitted for approval. In this case, it is hoped that the high-quality work by the target company will result in an approval rate of perhaps twice the typical level
• Approvals for new drugs typically take several years before approval due to the long term testing required to assess drug usefulness and possible side effects.
• The transaction will result in the acquisition of all of the stock of the target company by the acquiring entity.
• The purchase contract arrangements include $300 million in cash paid to the target company shareholders
• A contingency payment of up to $75 million will be made to the target company shareholders if all 15 drugs are approved by the FDA within a two-year period of time.

The audit team has been asked to meet with the CFO to discuss the acquiring company’s plans for the accounting treatment for the transaction. The email related to the plans for the meeting included the following brief schedule identifying $375 million as the purchase price paid for the assets included in the deal.

Purchase Price:                                 $375,000,000

Cash                                                   $300,000,000  

Contingency payment.                     $75,000,000

Question: Maintaining the concept of “professional skepticism” discussed during the course, please provide specific observations, (no longer than three sentences) related to the accuracy of, or problems with, the $375 million purchase price identified above?

Sally was hired at an annual salary of $60,000 on 1/1/20.   She elected to contribute $2000 to her Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and her employer contributed $500 to the plan. She contributed $5,000 to the company’s 401(k) plan and the company contributed $2500.   In addition, she contributed $100 from her payroll to the local United Way campaign. Compute the amount of her 2020 compensation that is subject to FICA taxes and the amount subject to income taxes.

1.            Within a few short months between the summer of 2019 and early 2020, Tesla added more than $100 billion to its market cap. Do you believe that Tesla’s stock market valuation making it the second most valuable car company globally is rational or do you think it is a hyped-up overvaluation?

2.            What business model is Tesla pursuing? How is Tesla’s business model different from traditional car manufacturers?

3.            Historically, the automotive industry in the United States has been identified by high barriers to entry. How was Tesla able to enter the automotive mass-market industry?

4.            What type of innovation strategy is Tesla pursuing? Tie your explanation to Elon Musk’s “Master Plan, Part 1.”

5.            In which stage of the industry life cycle is the electric vehicle industry? What core competencies are the most important at this stage of the industry life cycle? What are the strategic implications for the future development of this industry?

6.            Apply the Crossing-the-Chasm framework to explain some of the challenges Tesla is facing and provide some recommendations on how to overcome them.

7.            Evaluate Elon Musk’s “Master Plan, Part 2”ii and assess if Tesla can gain and sustain a competitive advantage.