The president of hill enterprises, terri hill, projects the firm's aggregate demand requirements over the next 8 months as follows: january1 comma 200may2 comma 100february1 comma 500june2 comma 300march1 comma 600july1 comma 800april1 comma 800august1 comma 800her operations manager is considering a new plan, which begins in january with 200 units of inventory on hand. stockout cost of lost sales is $125 per unit. inventory holding cost is $25 per unit per month. ignore any idle-time costs. the plan is called plan a. plan a: vary the workforce level to execute a strategy that produces the quantity demanded in the prior month. the december demand and rate of production are both 1 comma 600 units per month. the cost of hiring additional workers is $50 per unit. the cost of laying off workers is $75 per unit. evaluate this plan. (enter all responses as whole numbers.)

Suppose you have just been hired as the chief diversity officer of a large company. previous mentoring programs at this company have not been successful. after inquiring about previous efforts, you discover that most mentor pairs met just a few times, but very few lasting or meaningful mentoring relationships were created. there were also a significant number of employees that did not even attempt to seek out a mentor relationship. which of the following may be a reason why prior mentoring programs at your company failed? check all that apply. a) minorities and women are much less likely to develop mentoring relationships than white malesb) mentoring is not an effective way for organizations to develop female and minority employeesc) due to specific laws governing appropriate workplace behavior, senior-level male executives were reluctant to cultivate mentoring relationships with female employees, fearing negative repercussionsd) fear of creating a future competitor within the company, senior-level female executives were hesitant to mentor other female employees

Norton manufacturing expects to produce 2,900 units in january and 3,600 units in february. norton budgets $20 per unit for direct materials. indirect materials are insignificant and not considered for budgeting purposes. the balance in the raw materials inventory account (all direct materials) on january 1 is $38,650. norton desires the ending balance in raw materials inventory to be 10% of the next month's direct materials needed for production. desired ending balance for february is $51,100. what is the cost of budgeted purchases of direct materials needed for january? $58,000 $65,200 $26,550 $25,150

Allie and sarah decided that they want to purchase renters insurance for the apartment they share. they made a list of all of the items to be covered by the insurance policy, along with their estimated values. if the items to be covered total more than $3000, the insurance company charges an annual premium of 23% of the total value of the items. if the items to be covered total $3000 or less, the insurance company charges an annual premium of 20% of the total value of the items.