Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: F0662/ Web Based Accounting
: 2005
: 1/0
Pertemuan 2
How the “Electronic” Changing
Business
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Chapter 1 – Exercise 1
A European Union web site defines eommerce:
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Electronic Commerce is a general concept covering any form of business transactions or information exchange executed using information and communication technology, between companies, between companies and their customers, or between companies and public administrations .
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Chapter 1 – Exercise 1
A European Union web site defines eommerce: e-Commerce includes electronic trading of goods, services and electronic material.’
List technologies and applications that could be covered by this list and decide, in discussion, if they are usefully/appropriately classified as e-Commerce.
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Chapter 1 – Exercise 2
• Earnest Higginbottom started making Potted Beef in
Heckmondwike in 1876 and the company has been run on traditional lines ever since.
• Recently the business has started to change:
– Traditional local outlets are being replaced by supermarkets;
– Native Yorkshire tykes living as far away as Liverpool and
Los Angeles are ringing in to ask how to get hold of a bit of real potted beef.
– Suppliers, such as the maker of the jars, use computerised ordering systems
• Suggest where and in what form Higgies’ Potted
Beef could implement e-Commerce.
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Chapter 2 – Exercise 1
• Consider the value system of the insurance industry, for sales to the public, and comment on the advantages and disadvantages of the three sales channels that are outlined.
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Chapter 2 – Exercise 2
• Outline the value system of an organisation you know. Identify linkages where e-Commerce might be usefully applied.
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