Kelly’s Kites began operations on 1/1/11. When preparing her budget for 2012, Kelly estimated in January that she would sell 5,000 kites to local beach shops, for $10 per kite. She estimated that sales would increase 5% each month from the prior month. All sales are made to the local beach shops on credit. Kelly estimates that 50% of the sales will be collected within the same month of the sale, 40% will be collected the following month, and 10% will be collected two months after the sale. Sales in November, 2011 were 3,500 kites, and in December 2011 were 4,000 kites. a. Prepare the sales budget for the 1st quarter of 2012.
b. Prepare the cash receipts budget for the 1st quarter of 2012.

Minolta inc. is considering a project that has the following cash flow and wacc data. what is the project's mirr? note that a project's projected mirr can be less than the wacc (and even negative), in which case it will be rejected. wacc: 10.00% year 0 1 2 3 4 cash flows -$850 300 $320 $340 $360

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

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