The advantage of the weighted-average method is that

Explanation:

A weighted average method is an Inventory costing method. In this method, the cost of the products in the inventory are calculated. All products are assigned the average cost. This method is the easiest to calculate the cost of the inventory by getting the total cost and then assigning the average cost to each item. The advantage of this method is that, there are some products who has complex cost structure and it is usually difficult to calculate the complex cost structure, so weighted average method provides an easy way to calculate the cost of all the inventory items by just calculating the total cost and then assign the average cost to all the items present in the inventory.

due to the changes the federal reserve is making the unused reserves will impact the economy by them facing inflation. inflation is definfed as the increase in pricing of a good or service but the decline of the value of money used for purchasing those items. when the economy has a high inflation rate, they are subject to money loss and hurt on the economy.

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.