The manager of alaina's garden center must make the annual purchasing plans for rakes, gloves, and other gardening items. one of the items the company stocks is fast-grow, a liquid fertilizer. the sales of this item are seasonal, with peaks in the spring, summer, and fall months. quarterly demand (in cases) for the past two years is as follows: quarter year 1 year 2 1 37 58 2 347 493 3 289 312 4 224 301 total 897 1 comma 164 if the expected sales for fast-grow are 1 comma 277 cases for year 3, use the multiplicative seasonal method to prepare a forecast for each quarter of the year. (round all intermediate calculations to three decimal places.)

Assuming no direct factory overhead costs (i.e., inventory carry costs) and $3 million dollars in combined promotion and sales budget, the deft product manager wishes to achieve a product contribution margin of 35%. given their product currently is priced at $35.00, what would they need to limit the material and labor costs to?

Keshawn used to work for an it company in baltimore, but lost his job when his company decided to use workers in new delhi instead. this is an example of:

Profits from using currency options and futures.on july 2, the two-month futures rate of the mexican peso contained a 2 percent discount (unannualized). there was a call option on pesos with an exercise price that was equal to the spot rate. there was also a put option on pesos with an exercise price equal to the spot rate. the premium on each of these options was 3 percent of the spot rate at that time. on september 2, the option expired. go to the oanda.com website (or any site that has foreign exchange rate quotations) and determine the direct quote of the mexican peso. you exercised the option on this date if it was feasible to do so. a. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the call option? b. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the put option? c. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2? d. what was your net profit per unit if you sold a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2