According to the Feenstra-Hanson model of offshoring, if Japan is skilled-labour abundant and Mexico is unskilled-labour abundant, once the most unskilled-labour intensive task is offshored from Japan to Mexico, the skilled-unskilled wage ratio will: (a) Decrease in both countries. (b) Increase in Japan but decrease in Mexico. (c) Decrease in Japan but in increase in Mexico. (d) Increase in both countries. Explain the answer

Which part/word/phrase in the passage refers to a business’s financing activity seen in a cash flow statement? nathan works as an accountant in a footwear manufacturing company. he is currently preparing the cash flow statement for his employer. during the given accounting period, the company purchased raw materials worth $25,000. it also bought new equipment worth $75,000 to increase its production output. further, it borrowed a long-term bank loan of $100,000 to facilitate further expansion. finally, the company spent $50,000 on advertising its latest brand of footwear in the market. {lol i guessed its "it borrowed a long-term bank loan of $100,000 to facilitate further expansion" and thats correct}

Exercise 18-15 sheffield appliance center is an experienced home appliance dealer. sheffield appliance center also offers a number of services for the home appliances that it sells. assume that sheffield appliance center sells ovens on a standalone basis. sheffield appliance center also sells installation services and maintenance services for ovens. however, sheffield appliance center does not offer installation or maintenance services to customers who buy ovens from other vendors. pricing for ovens is as follows. oven only $790 oven with installation service 850 oven with maintenance services 970 oven with installation and maintenance services 990 in each instance in which maintenance services are provided, the maintenance service is separately priced within the arrangement at $180. additionally, the incremental amount charged by sheffield appliance center for installation approximates the amount charged by independent third parties. ovens are sold subject to a general right of return. if a customer purchases an oven with installation and/or maintenance services, in the event sheffield appliance center does not complete the service satisfactorily, the customer is only entitled to a refund of the portion of the fee that exceeds $790. assume that a customer purchases an oven with both installation and maintenance services for $990. (b) indicate the amount of revenue that should be allocated to the oven, the installation, and to the maintenance contract.

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297