A business analyst is hired by a local real estate firm to forecast how condo sales on a quarterly basis over the next several years. The firm provides the analyst with three years worth of quarterly condo sales data. Noticing that the data exhibits increasing trend and a seasonal pattern, the analyst chooses to create a multiple regression model for generating the forecasts:
y = 142 + 18 Qtr1 + (-76) Qtr2 + (-110) Qtr3 + 20 t
In the equation above, Qtr1, Qtr2, and Qtr3 are dummy variables corresponding to the first, second, and third quarters of the calendar year and t is the time period number, starting with t = 1 for the first quarter of year 1.
(a) Using the model described above, what is the forecast for the number of condo sales the firm can expect during the second quarter of year 5?
(Hint: the second quarter of year 5 would be time period t = 18.)

Select the correct answer. joshua runs a large manufacturing business that is listed on the stock exchange. his company made good profits in the previous financial year. he now plans to reward his shareholders with handsome dividends. under which category of activities in the cash flow statement would the company’s accountants place this outflow of cash? a. investing activities b. operating activities c. financing activities d. non-operating activities

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.