ssume two companies just merged and you are trying to combine the data for each company to analyze payroll for all employees. Employees at Company A submit their hours each week and are paid biweekly. Employees at Company B submit their hours for a month and are paid monthly. Describe how the data is likely stored by the two companies and how you would manipulate the data before it can be merged together.

You are the new chief information officer for the video-game developer, necturus games. the company has recently undergone a major expansion of its primary product, and you must staff up the is department and determine the best way to develop new game "capsules" for the game, "escape velocity."

Colter steel has $5,550,000 in assets. temporary current assets $ 3,100,000 permanent current assets 1,605,000 fixed assets 845,000 total assets $ 5,550,000 assume the term structure of interest rates becomes inverted, with short-term rates going to 10 percent and long-term rates 2 percentage points lower than short-term rates. earnings before interest and taxes are $1,170,000. the tax rate is 40 percent earnings after taxes = ?

1. what are some of the barriers alibaba is facing as it expands globally?