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kkovacic123
Dec 11, 2012, 06:16 PM
Daze is a product of the Digby company. Digby's sales forecast for Daze is 506 units. Digby wants to have an extra 10% of units on hand above and beyond their forecast in case sales are better than expected. (They would risk the possibility of excess inventory carrying charges rather than risk lost profits on a stock out.) Taking current inventory into account, what will Daze's Production After Adjustment have to be in order to have a 10% reserve of units available for sale?

kkovacic123
Dec 11, 2012, 06:18 PM
Digby's Elite product Daze has an awareness of 72%. Digby's Daze product manager for the Elite segment is determined to have more awareness for Daze than Andrews' Elite product Adam. She knows that the first $1M in promotion generates 22% new awareness, the second million adds 23% more and the third million adds another 5%. She also knows one-third of Daze's existing awareness is lost every year. Assuming that Adam's awareness stays the same next year (77%), out of the promotion budgets below, what is the minimum Digby's Elite product manager should spend in promotion to earn more awareness than Andrews' Adam product?

kkovacic123
Dec 11, 2012, 06:19 PM
Digby currently has $20,482 (000) in cash and management has decided to issue stocks and bonds worth an additional $8,000 (000). Assuming that cash from operations will be the same for each of the following activities, which activity exposes this company to the most risk of being issued an emergency loan?
Select: 1
Retiring the oldest bond
Purchasing $18,000 (000) worth of plant and equipment
Liquidate the entire inventory
$5 dividend

kkovacic123
Dec 11, 2012, 06:19 PM
Cedar is a product of the Chester company which is primarily in the Nano segment, but is also sold in another segment. Chester starts to create their sales forecast by assuming all policies (R&D, Marketing, and Production) for all competitors are equal this year over last. For this question assume that all 696 of units of Cedar are sold in the Nano segment. If the competitive environment remains unchanged what will be the Cedar product’s demand next year (in 000’s)?
Select: 1
794
696
1588
745

kkovacic123
Dec 11, 2012, 06:20 PM
Investing $2,000,000 in TQM's Channel Support Systems initiative will at a minimum increase demand for your products 1.7% in this and in all future rounds. (Refer to the TQM Initiative worksheet in the CompXM.xls Decisions menu.) Looking at the Round 0 Inquirer for Andrews, last year's sales were $162,769,926. Assuming similar sales next year, the 1.7% increase in demand will provide $2,767,089 of additional revenue. With the overall contribution margin of 33.6%, after direct costs this revenue will add $929,742 to the bottom line. For simplicity, assume that the demand increase and margins will remain at last year's levels. How long will it take to achieve payback on the initial $2,000,000 TQM investment, rounded to the nearest month?

odinn7
Dec 11, 2012, 06:25 PM
So you're just going to keep spamming this site with your homework questions?

Nobody here will do your homework. You need to attempt it first and give your answers, then maybe someone will tell you right or wrong and why.