PROBLEM 4.9 A) Month Price per Chip ($) 2-month moving average January 1.8 February 1.67 March 1.7 1.735 April 1.85 1.685 May 1.9 1.775 June 1.87 1.875 July 1.8 1.885 August 1.83 1.835 September 1.7 1.815 October 1.65 1.765 November 1.7 1.675 December 1.75 1.675 January 1.725 B) Month Price per Chip ($) 3-month moving average January 1.8 February 1.67 March 1.7 April 1.85 1.72 May 1.9 1.74 June
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Marriot Case Brief 1. What is the weighted Average Cost of Capital for Marriot Corporation? WACC for Marriott Corp is 11.89 WACC of divisions: Lodging 10.29‚ Restaurant 13.49‚ Contract Services 13.615 a) What risk-free rate and the risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? We used 8.95% as the risk free rate (LT Government Debt) and the MRP we used was 7.43%‚ which means are expected market return is 8.95+7.43=16.38% b) How did you measure Marriott’s cost of debt? We added
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phone is required to be off during the test. A basic calculator is allowed. 1. Use a 3-period simple moving average to develop a forecast for year 6. Year 2 3 4 5 6 a. b. c. d. e. $415 $445 $525 $605 $625 Sales $450 $495 $518 $563 $584 Forecast 2. Data collected on the annual demand for 50-pound bags of fertilizer at Pikes Garden Supply is shown below. Use a 3-year weighted moving average to forecast sales for year 6‚ where the weights are 0.5‚ 0.3‚ and 0.2‚ respectively (where 0.5 is the weight
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Marginal Revenue = Average Revenue 6) If a firm is a price taker‚ then the demand curve for the film’s product is: a. Completely horizontal because the price will not change. Use the following graph to answer question 7: 7) Refer to the graph on the left for a firm in pure competition. Line A represents: a. The total revenue made from selling each extra unit of output as per the price at Line B. b. (Additionally‚ Line B is the demand curve‚ marginal revenue curve‚ and average revenue curve.)
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department ($) |375‚000 |620‚000 | Bob new the his labor cost per hour has increased from average of $13 per hour to an average of $14 per hour‚ primarily due to a move by management to become more competitive with a new company that had just opened a plant in the area. He also knew that his average cost per barrel of raw material had increased from $320 to $360. He was concerned about the accounting procedures that increased his capital cost
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More precisely put‚ the average American man spends thirty minutes taking care about his appearance‚ cleaning teeth‚ washing head‚ dressing and so on and so forth. By the way‚ an average American woman spends for about forty‚ forty-four minutes on her appearance every day. (American Time Use Survey) But time is not only one resource‚ which people spend on their beauty. Money also rapidly goes to companies‚ which provides beauty services or sell articles of clothing. Average American family spent 616$
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method 1.moving averages 1.regression analysis 2.Opinion poll 2.exponential smoothing 2.multiple regression 3.Historical Analogy 3.econometric models 4.Field Surveys 5.Business barometers 6.Extrapolation Technique 7.Input-Out put Analysis 8.Lead Lag Analysis 9.Sales force composites 10.Consumer Market survey Simple Average Method The historical data is used for extrapolating and forecasting. Either simple averages or moving averages could be used
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correlation coefficient‚ bias‚ mean absolute deviation (MAD)‚ mean squared error (MSE)‚ and mean absolute percent error (MAPE) are shown. Correlation Bias MAD MSE MAPE Naïve -- 541.38 6865.52 69‚856‚200 .19 Moving Average (3 periods) -- 491.36 6‚138.27 59‚540‚560 .17 Weighted Moving Average (3 period; .6‚ .3‚ .1) -- 424.81 6‚501.58 61‚107‚180 .18 Exponential smoothing (alpha = 0.5) -- 794.28 5‚880.56 50‚755‚960 .16 Trend Analysis .54 0.00 4‚355.70 31‚285‚700 .12 Seasonal Additive Decomposition .97
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life I have had very few role models. They have been mostly famous people I see in College Softball. Famous people like Cat Osterman and Jenni Finch‚ but what young lady hasn’t wanted to seemingly have pitched a no hitter or had the greatest batting average? But as you grow older and mature you soon realize that more than just famous people can be role models to you. To me one of my role models is my grandfather‚ to me POPO. Popo and I are a lot alike. My grandfather had life challenging experiences
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310 June 6 175 July 7 155 Aug 8 130 Sept 9 220 Oct 10 277.5 Nov 11 235 Dec 12 1. 3 Month Moving Averages: The forecast for April is average of Jan‚ Feb and Mar shipments‚ =(200+135+195)/3‚ enter D5=SUM(C2:C4)/3 in EXCEL file. Copy and paste this column. So‚ forecast for Dec. shipments is 244.17 2. Similarly‚ for Five Month Average will be E7=SUM(C2:C6)/5= 207.4; copy and paste the formula till the end. So‚ forecast for Dec is 203.50 3. EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING:
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