Unlike a bond issue, in which the entire issue is brought to market at once, is partially sold on a continuous basis through an issuance facility that allows the borrower to obtain funds only as needed on a flexible basis.

Down under products, ltd., of australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows: unit salesapril 74,000may 85,000june 114,000july 92,000the company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. the inventory at the end of march was 7,400 units.required: prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297

As more people migrated west during the gold rush, what do you think happened to the demand curve in most western markets, holding all else constant? a. there was no shift, nor any increase or decrease in quantity demanded. b. there was no shift, but there was a decrease in quantity demanded. c. the demand curve shifted to the left. d. the demand curve shifted to the right. e. there was no shift, but there was an increase in quantity demanded.