I NEED HELP FAST THE DIRECTIONS ARE WITHIN THE WORKSHEET!!! will also give brainliest Directions: Read the following statements in the order in which they are written. Determine if
each statement represents a quantitative or a qualitative method of sales forecasting.
Put the first letter of the statement in the appropriate row at the bottom of the page,
then proceed to the next statement. After all answers are recorded, each row will
spell a word associated with that method.

Statements:
New Image Hair Salon hires a firm to conduct a survey to determine the frequency of salon visits.
Unemployment figures could decrease demand and may be useful for inventory planning decisions.
Observation of current trends is helpful in sales forecasting.
Method of sales forecasting that is most expensive is this type.
Predicting sales for a new product based on feelings would fall under this category.
If you hear that the cost of plastic for toy production is increasing, you can make advance
purchasing decisions.
Nifty Sporting Goods has a customer suggestion box for new products that the store should offer
for sale.
Business publications can detail the sales of GM vehicles in 2013.
“I need to know how many employees you think I should hire,” Ms. Smith asks the Small Business
Administration.
Oliver, the manager of a Wendy’s restaurant, calls another Wendy’s manager to find out how they
competed with a new McDonald’s.
Exact data and facts can be provided through this sales forecasting method.
Not quite as accurate or precise as the other method, this method is still quite useful.
Retirement-related purchases will increase with the rise in the senior-citizen
population—population figures will be needed.
Sales figures for last year can help a business plan current inventory levels.

QUANTITATIVE:

QUALITATIVE:

Information on gerken power co., is shown below. assume the company’s tax rate is 40 percent. debt: 9,400 8.4 percent coupon bonds outstanding, $1,000 par value, 21 years to maturity, selling for 100.5 percent of par; the bonds make semiannual payments. common stock: 219,000 shares outstanding, selling for $83.90 per share; beta is 1.24. preferred stock: 12,900 shares of 5.95 percent preferred stock outstanding, currently selling for $97.10 per share. market: 7.2 percent market risk premium and 5 percent risk-free rate. required: calculate the company's wacc. (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) wacc %

Job 456 was recently completed. the following data have been recorded on its job cost sheet: direct materials $ 2,418 direct labor-hours 74 labor-hours direct labor wage rate $ 13 per labor-hour machine-hours 137 machine-hours the corporation applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of machine-hours. the predetermined overhead rate is $14 per machine-hour. the total cost that would be recorded on the job cost sheet for job 456 would be: multiple choice $3,380 $5,298 $6,138 $2,622

Blue computers, a major pc manufacturer in the united states, currently has plants in kentucky and pennsylvania. the kentucky plant has a capacity of 1 million units a year and the pennsylvania plant has a capacity of 1.5 million units a year. the firm divides the united states into five markets: northeast, southeast, midwest, south, and west. each pc sells for $1,000. the firm anticipates a 50 perc~nt growth in demand (in each region) this year (after which demand will stabilize) and wants to build a plant with a capacity of 1.5 million units per year to accommodate the growth. potential sites being considered are in north carolina and california. currently the firm pays federal, state, and local taxes on the income from each plant. federal taxes are 20 percent of income, and all state and local taxes are 7 percent of income in each state. north carolina has offered to reduce taxes for the next 10 years from 7 percent to 2 percent. blue computers would like to take the tax break into consideration when planning its network. consider income over the next 10 years in your analysis. assume that all costs remain unchanged over the 10 years. use a discount factor of 0.1 for your analysis. annual fixed costs, production and shipping costs per unit, and current regional demand (before the 50 percent growth) are shown in table 5-13. (a) if blue computers sets an objective of minimizing total fixed and variable costs, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? (b) if blue computers sets an objective of maximizing after-tax profits, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? variable production and shipping cost ($/unit) annual fixed cost northeast southeast midwest south west (million$) kentucky 185 180 175 175 200 150 pennsylvania 170 190 180 200 220 200 n. carolina 180 180 185 185 215 150 california 220 220 195 195 175 150 demand ('000 units/month) 700 400 400 300 600