1. A men's swim buyer determines that the department has net sales of $875,000, expenses of $345,000, and total reductions of $95,000. This buyer also wants to attain a net profit of 4.5%. Find the initial markup percentage. gg

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.

when consumers have more money to pay for a product, the most likely situation to occur from the possible options on the list is (2) an increase in price for computer and computer accessories will happen.

companies tend to price products according to production costs, but they also take into account how much money would a consumer in certain segments be willing to pay for their product. if they have more money, the products would definitely be priced higher.