Francisco came to the U. S. on a swimming scholarship. After a few months of frustration with trying to find the swim goggles he prefers from home, he created a website that selling specialty goggles for swimming, skiing, and snowboarding. Before launching the website and filling orders, Francisco spent a few months going to swim meets and gathering preferences about goggles from other international swimmers. Francisco's actions A) showed that he had a ready market for this product.
B) demonstrated that he had little experience with this product.
C) showed that he was promoting the website before it launched.
D) demonstrated his need to better understand the market.

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

The following are the current month's balances for abc financial services, inc. before preparing the trial balance. accounts payable $ 10,000 revenue 6,000 cash 3,000 expenses 17,500 furniture 10,000 accounts receivable 14,000 common stock ? notes payable 6,500 what amount should be shown for common stock on the trial balance? a. $48.000b. $12.500c. $27.000d. $28.000

M. cotteleer electronics supplies microcomputer circuitry to a company that incorporates microprocessors into refrigerators and other home appliances. one of the components has an annual demand of 235 units, and this is constant throughout the year. carrying cost is estimated to be $1.25 per unit per year, and the ordering (setup) cost is $21 per order. a) to minimize cost, how many units should be ordered each time an order is placed? b) how many orders per year are needed with the optimal policy? c) what is the average inventory if costs are minimized? d) suppose that the ordering cost is not $21, and cotteleer has been ordering 125 units each time an order is placed. for this order policy (of q = 125) to be optimal, determine what the ordering cost would have to be.