Sheffield Corp. is planning to sell 1000 buckets and produce 580 buckets during March. Each bucket requires 300 grams of plastic and one-half hour of direct labor. Plastic costs $10 per 300 grams and employees of the company are paid $10 per hour. Manufacturing overhead is applied at a rate of 110% of direct labor costs. Sheffield has 100 kilos of plastic in beginning inventory and wants to have 1000 kilos in ending inventory. How much is the total amount of budgeted direct labor for March

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.

reducing the scale of the market for a new product.

riley- $3

sean- $4

jake- $8

riley has the absolute advantage.