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.

Managerial accounting requirements for E-commerce

1. Critically appraise the costs related to entrepreneurial e-commerce platform that may
include cloud services.
(CLO1 – 5 Marks)

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.
(CLO3 – 10 Marks)

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.
(CLO4 – 25 Marks)