Class Objectives

1. Discuss software needs to support retail ecommerce.

2. Continue discussion of tax aspects of retail commerce.
 
 

Background Preparation

Review web sites of retailers.  A few selected links from the millions of retail web sites are at http://www.willyancey.com/retail.htm

Consider the following questions:
 

• What is the impact on pricing of retail comparison web sites?
• How are the internal control problems of retail ecommerce businesses different from direct mail or catalogue sales?
• How can retail ecommerce sites know the taxing jurisdictions of its customers?

Browse some of the following sites and read some review articles on retail ecommerce.
 

• eMarketer at http://www.emarketer.com/
• B2C Retail Electronic Commerce from About.com at http://retailindustry.about.com/industry/retailindustry/msub_web.htm
• Web Commerce Today at http://www.wilsonweb.com/wct/
• dotcomfailures at http://www.dotcomfailures.com/
• eCommerce Today of Australia at http://www.ecommercetoday.com.au/
• E-Commerce Tax News by David Hardesty at http://ecommercetax.com/
• E-business Building at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/e-business/building/index.html
• United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy at http://www.ecommerce.gov/
• ZDNet  E-Commerce at http://www.zdnet.com/ecommerce/

Student Presentations

(presentation titles are subject to change)

Mike Malakoff, "Valuation of an Ecommerce Business"