Zira Co. reports the following production budget for the next four months. Each finished unit requires five pounds of raw materials, and the company wants to end each month with raw materials inventory equal to 30% of next month’s production needs. Beginning raw materials inven- tory for April was 663 pounds. Assume direct materials cost $4 per pound. Prepare a direct materials budget for April, May, and June

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.

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