Your job pays you only once a year for all the work you did over the previous 12 months. today, december 31, you received your salary of $52,000 and you plan to spend all of it. however, you want to start saving for retirement beginning next year. you have decided that one year from today you will begin depositing 10 percent of your annual salary in an account that will earn 9.2 percent per year. your salary will increase at 3 percent per year throughout your career. how much money will you have on the date of your retirement 40 years from today? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)

Find the interest rate for a $4000 deposit accumulating to $5234.58, compounded quarterly for 9 years

Shelby company produces three products: product x, product y, and product z. data concerning the three products follow (per unit): product x product y product z selling price $ 85 $ 65 $ 75 variable expenses: direct materials 25.50 19.50 5.25 labor and overhead 25.50 29.25 47.25 total variable expenses 51.00 48.75 52.50 contribution margin $ 34.00 $ 16.25 $ 22.50 contribution margin ratio 40 % 25 % 30 % demand for the company’s products is very strong, with far more orders each month than the company can produce with the available raw materials. the same material is used in each product. the material costs $8 per pound, with a maximum of 4,400 pounds available each month. required: a. compute contribution margin per pound of materials used. (round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.) contribution margin per pound product x $ product y $ product z $ b. which orders would you advise the company to accept first, those for product x, for product y, or for product z? which orders second? third? product x product y product z

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