Period 1 had actual sales of 1,020. period 2 had actual sales of 1,010, and period 3 had actual sales of 1,060. what is the three-period moving average? select 2. our last four periods had sales, from oldest to most recent, of 100, 200, 130, and 300. what is the three-period ma? select 3. last month our forecast was 800, but we sold 1,000 units. what is the forecast error? select 4. last month, the forecast error was -300. with an alpha of .10, by how much will this month's forecast change? select 5. the last two months had forecast errors of 200 and -50; what is the mad? select 6. we find our data has a trend, with intercept a=90 and slope b=2. at time 6, what is the forecast?

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

Why should managers invest any excess cash

At cooly cola, we are testing the appeal of our new diet one cola. in a taste test of 250 randomly chosen cola drinkers, 200 consumers preferred diet one cola to the leading brand. assuming that the sample were large enough, the large-sample 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of cola drinkers that prefer diet one cola would be: