Ruiz Co. provides the following sales forecast for the next four months. April May June JulySales (units) 650 730 680 770The company wants to end each month with ending finished goods inventory equal to 30% of next month's forecasted sales. Finished goods inventory on April 1 is 195 units. Assume July's budgeted production is 680 units. In addition, each finished unit requires six pounds (lbs.) of raw materials and the company wants to end each month with raw materials inventory equal to 40% of next month's production needs. Beginning raw materials inventory for April was 1637 pounds. Assume direct materials cost $5 per pound. Required:Prepare a direct materials budget for April, May, and June. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to the rest whole dollar amount.)

5. profit maximization and shutting down in the short run suppose that the market for polos is a competitive market. the following graph shows the daily cost curves of a firm operating in this market. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 price (dollars per polo) quantity (thousands of polos) mc atc avc for each price in the following table, calculate the firm's optimal quantity of units to produce, and determine the profit or loss if it produces at that quantity, using the data from the previous graph to identify its total variable cost. assume that if the firm is indifferent between producing and shutting down, it will produce. (hint: you can select the purple points [diamond symbols] on the previous graph to see precise information on average variable cost.) price quantity total revenue fixed cost variable cost profit (dollars per polo) (polos) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) 12.50 135,000 27.50 135,000 45.00 135,000 if the firm shuts down, it must incur its fixed costs (fc) in the short run. in this case, the firm's fixed cost is $135,000 per day. in other words, if it shuts down, the firm would suffer losses of $135,000 per day until its fixed costs end (such as the expiration of a building lease). this firm's shutdown price—that is, the price below which it is optimal for the firm to shut down—is per polo.

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.

Jaguar has full manufacturing costs of their s-type sedan of £22,803. they sell the s-type in the uk with a 20% margin for a price of £27,363. today these cars are available in the us for $55,000 which is the uk price multiplied by the current exchange rate of $2.01/£. jaguar has committed to keeping the us price at $55,000 for the next six months. if the uk pound appreciates against the usd to an exchange rate of $2.15/£, and jaguar has not hedged against currency changes, what is the amount the company will receive in pounds at the new exchange rate?