As ceo of your company, you've been going over your financial statements and have noticed something disturbing. you perform a horizontal analysis and find that sales have been increasing at a rate of 3 percent per year, while inventory has risen at a rate of 29 percent per year. because the gap between sales growth and growth of inventory is so large, the ceo should assume fraud has occurred and proceed accordingly.
1. could fraud be occurring? why or why not? 2. assuming that fraud is being committed ,how would you investigate?

Atoy manufacturer makes its own wind-up motors, which are then put into its toys. while the toy manufacturing process is continuous, the motors are intermittent flow. data on the manufacture of the motors appears below.annual demand (d) = 50,000 units daily subassembly production rate = 1,000setup cost (s) = $85 per batch daily subassembly usage rate = 200carrying cost = $.20 per unit per year(a) to minimize cost, how large should each batch of subassemblies be? (b) approximately how many days are required to produce a batch? (c) how long is a complete cycle? (d) what is the average inventory for this problem? (e) what is the total annual inventory cost (holding plus setup) of the optimal behavior in this problem?

You are the new chief information officer for the video-game developer, necturus games. the company has recently undergone a major expansion of its primary product, and you must staff up the is department and determine the best way to develop new game "capsules" for the game, "escape velocity."

You decide to invest in a portfolio consisting of 25 percent stock a, 25 percent stock b, and the remainder in stock c. based on the following information, what is the expected return of your portfolio? state of economy probability of state return if state occurs of economy stock a stock b stock c recession .16 - 16.4 % - 2.7 % - 21.6 % normal .55 12.6 % 7.3 % 15.9 % boom .29 26.2 % 14.6 % 30.5 %