Keggler’s Supply is a merchandiser of three different products. The company’s February 28 inventories are footwear, 20,000 units; sports equipment, 80,000 units; and apparel, 50,000 units. Management believes each of these inventories is too high. As a result, a new policy dictates that ending inventory in any month should equal 30% of the expected unit sales for the following month. Expected sales in units for March, April, May, and June follow. Budgeted Sales in Units March April May June Footwear 15,000 25,000 32,000 35,000 Sports equipment 70,000 90,000 95,000 90,000 Apparel 40,000 38,000 37,000 25,000 Required: 1. Prepare a merchandise purchases budget (in units) for each product for each of the months of March, April, and May.

Clonex labs, inc., uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. the following data are available for one department for october: percent completed units materials conversion work in process, october 1 53,000 90 % 65 % work in process, october 31 29,000 74 % 52 % the department started 381,000 units into production during the month and transferred 405,000 completed units to the next department. required: compute the equivalent units of production for october.

A) plot the m1 and m2 money stock in the us from 1990-2015. (hint: you may use the data tools provided by fred.) (b) plot the nominal interest rate from 1960 to 2014. (hint: you can either use the daily interest rates for selected u.s. treasury, private money market and capital market instruments from or the effective federal funds rate fromfred.) (c) the consumer price index (cpi) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. intuitively, the cpi represents the cost of living or the average price level. plot the cpi from 1960 to 2013.(d) the inflation rate is the yearly percentage change in the average price level. in practice, we usually use the percentage change in the cpi to compute the inflation rate. plot the inflation rate from 1960 to 2013.(e) explain the difference between the ex-ante and ex-post real interest rate. use the fisher equation to compute the ex-post real interest rate. plot the nominal interest rate and the ex-post real interest rate from 1960 to 2013 in the same graph.

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.