Yummy jams company produces a line of jams. yummy's estimated production of jars of jam for the fourth quarter of the year is as follows: october 75,000 november 98,000 december 63,000 each jar requires half a pound of berries. yummy prefers to buy the freshest berries, so its policy is to have just 3 percent of the following month's production needs in ending inventory. on october 1, the company had 1,125 pounds of berries in inventory. yummy's pays $0.60 per pound of berries. it buys all berries on account and typically pays 40 percent of a month's purchases in that month, and the remaining 60 percent the following month. how many pounds of berries will be purchased during the month of november?
a) 49,945.
b) 39,925.
c) 41,950.
d) 48,475.
e) 23,375.

You decide that structural changes must be made at holden evans immediately to deal with the additional product lines. equipment and employees will have to be moved around to optimize production of all of the products in house. this shouldn't be too difficult because many of the vitamins and supplements are produced using similar processes. you have several options available to facilitate this process. which of the following methods do you think is the best choice? select an option from the choices below and click submit. because the changes may result in the loss of several key employees, you hire outside consultants who specialize in hr law. this way any employee terminations will not result in lawsuits. you select an outside consulting firm that your company has never worked with before, but it has a reputation for using new technology in product lines that are similar to yours. you select several trusted managers to facilitate the transition of operations from overseas. these individuals can gather information and also smooth any rough spots that may occur.

Consider 8.5 percent swiss franc/u.s. dollar dual-currency bonds that pay $666.67 at maturity per sf1,000 of par value. it sells at par. what is the implicit sf/$ exchange rate at maturity? will the investor be better or worse off at maturity if the actual sf/$ exchange rate is sf1.35/$1.00

Abbington company has a manufacturing facility in brooklyn that manufactures robotic equipment for the auto industry. for year 1, abbingtonabbington collected the following information from its main production line: actual quantity purchased-200 units, actual quantity used-110 units, units standard quantity-100 units, actual price paid-$8 per unit, standard price-$10 per unit. atlantic isolates price variances at the time of purchase. what is the materials price variance for year 1? 1. $400 favorable. 2. $400 unfavorable. 3. $220 favorable. 4. $220 unfavorable.