Required information use the following information for the exercises below. ruiz co. provides the following sales forecast for the next four months: april july may june sales (units) 530 610 560 650 the company wants to end each month with ending finished goods inventory equal to 30% of next month's forecasted sales. finished goods inventory on april 1 is 159 units. assume july's budgeted production is 560 units. in addition, each finished unit requires six pounds (ibs.) of raw materials and the company wants to end each month with raw materials inventory equal to 30% of next month's production needs. beginning raw materials inventory for april was 997 pounds. assume direct materials cost $5 per pound. exercise 7-4 manufacturing: direct materials budget lo p1 prepare a direct materials budget for april, may, and june. (round your intermediate calculations and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.) answer is not complete. ruiz co. direct materials budget for april, may, and june april may june budgeted production (units) materials requirements per unit materials needed for production (lbs.) budgeted ending inventory (lbs.) total materials requirements (lbs.) beginning inventory (lbs.) materials to be purchased (ibs.) cost per lb. total budgeted direct materials cost

As a group is leaving, you ask them if they had a good experience at the restaurant. they mention that they had poor service and their food was cold. a. apologize and ask them to give the restaurant another chance in the future. you tell them that guests usually have a great experience here. b. apologize then ask for the server’s name and immediately notify the manager after they leave. c. apologize for the bad experience and ask them to wait as you call the manager to talk to them. d. apologize for the bad experience and encourage them to complete the customer service survey. this feedback will ensure other guests do not have the same experience.

Actual usage for the year by the marketing department was 70,000 copies and by the operations department was 330,000 copies. if a dual-rate cost-allocation method is used, what amount of copying facility costs will be budgeted for the operations department?

Afirm's before-tax cost of debt, rd, is the interest rate that the firm must pay on debt. because interest is tax deductible, the relevant cost of debt used to calculate a firm's wacc is the cost of debt, rd (1 – t). the cost of debt is used in calculating the wacc because we are interested in maximizing the value of the firm's stock, and the stock price depends on cash flows. it is important to emphasize that the cost of debt is the interest rate on debt, not debt because our primary concern with the cost of capital is its use in capital budgeting decisions. the rate at which the firm has borrowed in the past is because we need to know the cost of capital. for these reasons, the on outstanding debt (which reflects current market conditions) is a better measure of the cost of debt than the . the on the company's -term debt is generally used to calculate the cost of debt because more often than not, the capital is being raised to fund -term projects. quantitative problem: 5 years ago, barton industries issued 25-year noncallable, semiannual bonds with a $1,600 face value and a 8% coupon, semiannual payment ($64 payment every 6 months). the bonds currently sell for $845.87. if the firm's marginal tax rate is 40%, what is the firm's after-tax cost of debt? round your answer to 2 decimal places. do not round intermediate calcu