TA Corp. has a consulting contract with a firm that states that he will receive annual payments of $50,000 a year for five years with the first payment due today. What is the current value of this contract if the discount rate is 8.4 percent?

the discount us 4200

50000/100 ×8.4=4200

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

answer; tech (a) is correct;