In his book, the new economics for industry, government, education, dr. w. edwards deming indicates that ranking people, salesmen, teams, divisions; reward at the top, punishment at the bottom; the so-called merit system is a farce. apparent performance is actually attributed mostly (98%) to the system that the individual works in, not the individual him/herself. the following equation will you to understand the futility of attempting to rank people. let 'x' be the contribution of some individual in a company, '(yx)' the effect of the system on the individual's performance. then suppose we have some number for the individual's performance such as 8 mistakes during the year, or making sales of $8,000,000. then: x + yx = 8your mission for this discussion question is to solve this equation for x and tell us how you did it. this is exactly what managers are doing when giving the individual a performance evaluation. the manager has no idea what the 'y' factor is, the impact of the system on the individual's performance; it is not measured. managers are just guessing what the 'y' factor is.

The following account balances at the beginning of january were selected from the general ledger of fresh bagel manufacturing company: work in process inventory $0 raw materials inventory $ 28 comma 100 finished goods inventory $ 40 comma 600 additional data: 1. actual manufacturing overhead for january amounted to $ 65 comma 000. 2. total direct labor cost for january was $ 63 comma 400. 3. the predetermined manufacturing overhead rate is based on direct labor cost. the budget for the year called for $ 255 comma 000 of direct labor cost and $ 382 comma 500 of manufacturing overhead costs. 4. the only job unfinished on january 31 was job no. 151, for which total direct labor charges were $ 5 comma 200 (1 comma 300 direct labor hours) and total direct material charges were $ 14 comma 400. 5. cost of direct materials placed in production during january totaled $ 123 comma 700. there were no indirect material requisitions during january. 6. january 31 balance in raw materials inventory was $ 35 comma 300. 7. finished goods inventory balance on january 31 was $ 35 comma 400. what is the cost of goods manufactured for january?

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Amanager of a store that sells and installs spas wants to prepare a forecast for january and june of next year. her forecasts are a combination of trend and seasonality. she uses the following equation to estimate the trend component of monthly demand: ft = 30+5t, where t = 1 in january of this year. seasonal relatives are 0.60 for january and 1.50 for june. what demands should she predict for january and june of next year