Costs related to entrepreneurial e-commerce platform

  1. Critically appraise the costs related to entrepreneurial e-commerce platform that may include cloud services
  2. Evaluate the different challenges arising from complex situations an owner of a small or medium business may face when moving from conventional selling to online selling. Your decisions must address online payment and recent analysis about hidden costs for e-commerce and cloud costs if applicable.
  3. Using the example of small/medium business selected in requirement 2 above, produce a number of units’ breakeven analysis. The latter should propose different realistic scenarios for changes in costs and/or revenues that help the business owner to budget satisfactory net income.
    ***As a GUIDE ONLY, this section outlines some of the aspects you may consider significant given the brief shown above. Your report should include:
    I. Executive Summary
    II. Introduction and Background (Definition of key Concepts and terms with proper citation)
    I. Answer requirements 1 through 3 (including the literature review section that covers requirements 1 & 2)
    II. Analysis and Calculations using the MS Excel submission link
    III. Conclusion and Recommendations
    IV. References.

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