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Blockchain: The Fall of Traditional Centralized Systems in Business & Finance

Smart Data Collective

The market for blockchain technology in the financial sector is expected to reach over $3 billion by 2024. In the year 2009, a man under the alias of Satoshi Nakamoto invented the first digital currency called bitcoin and initiated the use of blockchains. Blockchain is one of the most important technologies to shape the world.

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How to Follow New OECD Guidance on Transfer Pricing

Jet Global

She added that, for taxpayers, these challenges create increased uncertainty. MNEs should document the best market evidence currently available, which may be in the form of internal comparables, external comparables, and other relevant evidence of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Guide to Intercompany Transfer Pricing

Jet Global

There are two methods commonly used to price intercompany transactions: the cost-plus method and the market price method. The market price method, on the other hand, uses prices that would be charged to an unrelated third party as a benchmark. The company transferred IP value to affiliates between 2007 and 2009. Download Now.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

Experiments come in all shapes and sizes: A marketing campaign. Try to understand your market. Read up on ways that companies are growing their business, from growth hacking to content marketing, and use that as inspiration. By late 2009, that experiment was a success, too; they'd climbed back up to 4.5

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

It is entirely feasible that some market event occurs this year ( for example the entrance or exit of a competitor, or the launch of a new competitor product) which would render prior year figures a poor guide. Especially for all Business Analytics professionals out there (2009). [7]. Why Business Intelligence projects fail” (2009).

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Many of these models are standard, and can be fit using a variety of tools, such as the StructTS function distributed with base R or one of several R packages for fitting these models (with the dlm package (Petris 2010, Petris, Petrone, and Campagnoli 2009) deserving special mention). The first assumes the local linear trend model.

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Adapting to Change: Finding Opportunity in Crucible Moments

Alation

Uncertainty reigns These days, planning a dinner out can be as complicated as planning a global business acquisition. But recognizing the opportunity in uncertainty is what separates the winners from the pack. Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital agrees, pointing to all the uncertainty and change in the world as proof.