In 2019, a marketing manager for New Balance’s Fresh Foam Zante shoe needs to forecast sales through 2021. She begins with the known totals for 2018 and adjusts for positive factors like acceptance of new high-tech designs and great publicity, and for negative factors like higher inflation and predicted moves by the competition. This type of forecast is referred to as

a. trend extrapolation.
b. direct forecasting.
c. lost-horse forecasting.
d. linear trend forecasting.
e. a survey of buyers’ intentions.

(blank) is the type of competition that occurs in a competitive market without identical producers.

Trecek corporation incurs research and development costs of $625,000 in 2017, 30 percent of which relate to development activities subsequent to ias 38 criteria having been met that indicate an intangible asset has been created. the newly developed product is brought to market in january 2018 and is expected to generate sales revenue for 10 years. assume that a u.s.–based company is issuing securities to foreign investors who require financial statements prepared in accordance with ifrs. thus, adjustments to convert from u.s. gaap to ifrs must be made. ignore income taxes. required: (a) prepare journal entries for research and development costs for the years ending december 31, 2017, and december 31, 2018, under (1) u.s. gaap and (2) ifrs. (c) prepare the entry(ies) that trecek would make on the december 31, 2017, and december 31, 2018, conversion worksheets to convert u.s. gaap balances to ifrs.

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