Author: eugene

Briefly describe the most critical threat (strategic risk) to the sustainability of the dating service business and Match’s strategy.

Your client is Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), a recent (2015) IPO spin-off of Interactive
Corporation. The Company’s most recognizable brands are Match.com, OkCupid, and Tinder.
You are in the planning stages of the engagement to audit the financial statements as of and for
the year ended December 31, 2016, and your objective is to conduct a risk analysis of Match
Group for the purpose of identifying financial statement accounts for further investigation. To do
so, please respond to the following:
(1) What is Match Group’s strategy? In other words, how does Match make money?
(2) Briefly describe the most critical threat (strategic risk) to the sustainability of the dating
service business and Match’s strategy.
(3) Briefly describe one core business process at Match that reduces the potential impact of
the strategic risk you identified. Given this risk and Match’s response through its business
process, does Match’s strategy appear sustainable?
(4) For the core business process you identified above, briefly describe one process objective
and how that objective relates to Match’s overall strategy.
(5) Briefly describe one risk that threatens the achievement of the process objective above.
(6) Identify two internal controls at Match that address this process risk. Are these controls
designed effectively (to the best of your knowledge)?

Write a research paper about the demographic transition model and global food production and distribution for a growing human population to meet global food security goals.

write a research paper about the demographic transition model and global food production and distribution for a growing human population to meet global food security goals.

•Describe the demographic transition model and how it was developed by demographers.
•Describe the 4 phases of demographic transition.
◦For each phase, compare crude birth rates (CBR) to crude death rates (CDR), and state whether the population is stable, growing, or declining in each. ·
•According to demographers, what factors lead to a decline of the CDR in phase two and the CBR in phase three of the demographic transition? ·
•Briefly describe 3 living conditions in developed countries that have reached phase four, and contrast them with these same conditions in developing countries that remain in earlier phases.
◦Note: When comparing and contrasting, include details for each of the entities being compared and contrasted. For example, if comparing availability of clean water in a developed country, contrast availability of clean water in a developing country.
•Research and describe a program for developing countries that would help improve 1 of the 3 conditions that you compared.
•Food security means that everyone has an adequate amount of nutritious food to lead healthy lives.