QS 20-30A (Algo) Merchandising: Computing merchandise purchases LO P4 Montel Company’s July sales budget shows sales of $620,000. The company budgets beginning merchandise inventory of $60,000 and ending merchandise inventory of $36,000 for July. Cost of goods sold is 30% of sales. Determine the budgeted cost of merchandise purchases for July. Hint: Use the relation (Beginning Inventory + Purchases − Cost of Goods Sold = Ending Inventory) to solve for purchases.

The chart shows a production possibilities schedule for sabrina’s soccer. combination: soccer balls: soccer nets: a 10 0 b 8 1 c 6 2 d 4 3 e 2 4 f 0 5 which statement correctly explains the chart? a. the opportunity cost of producing one soccer net is eight soccer balls. b. the opportunity cost of producing two soccer nets is two soccer balls. c. the opportunity cost of producing two soccer balls is one soccer net. d. the opportunity cost of producing four soccer balls is three soccer nets.

Technology corp. is considering a $238,160 investment in a new marketing campaign that it anticipates will provide annual cash flows of $52,000 for the next five years. the firm has a 6% cost of capital. what should the analysis indicate to the firm's managers?

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?