Nash's Trading Post, LLC had an increase in inventory of $88800. The cost of goods sold was $414400. There was a $22200 decrease in accounts payable from the prior period. Using the direct method of reporting cash flows from operating activities, what were Nash's's cash payments to suppliers?

$525,400

Explanation:

From the question, we are informed that Nash's Trading Post, LLC had an increase in inventory of $88800, the cost of goods sold was $414400 and that there was a $22200 decrease in accounts payable from the prior period.

Using the direct method of reporting cash flows from operating activities, Nash's's cash payments to the suppliers will be:

= $88,800 + $414400 + $22200

= $525,400

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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