The activities in a firm that try to identify customer needs and focus the flow of goods or services in the firm in order to meet those needs is called

a corporation is legally separate from its owner, and it pays its own taxes.

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/// real gdp decreases to y3 and the price level falls to p3;