Lo 5.4why does each department have its own work in process inventory?

Answer and explanation:

Within an organization, each department accumulates its costs in a process cost system to calculate the value of work in process inventory, thus, there will be a process inventory for each manufacturing department along with inventory cost for the inventory of finished goods.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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2. a talk with them

3. ask someone you trust

4. ignore

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