You want to have $5 million in real dollars in an account when you retire in 20 years. The nominal return on your investment is 10 percent and the inflation rate is 3 percent.
What is the real amount you must deposit each year to achieve your goal?

The real amount that you must deposit each year to achieve your goal is:

= $54,662.78.

Explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

Required amount in real dollars = $5 million

Nominal return on investment = 10%

Inflation rate = 3%

Real return on investment = 13% (10 + 3)

From an online financial calculator:

N (# of periods)  20

I/Y (Interest per year)  13

PV (Present Value)  0

FV (Future Value)  5000000

Results

PMT = $54,662.78

Sum of all periodic payments$1,093,255.61

Total Interest$3,906,744.3

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.

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