PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL Assignment A Marks 10 Answer all questions. 1. a) Explain the forecasting process? What are the techniques for monitoring forecasts? b) Explain various forecasting models. a) A planning tool that helps management in its attempts to cope with the uncertainty of the future, relying mainly on data from the past and present and analysis of trends. Forecasting starts with certain assumptions based
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Executive Summary Fantastic Florals, Inc. (FFI) imports exclusively handmade flowers by artisans from Indonesia. The firm's main office is in Anytown, Oregon, and has a customs house broker in Seattle, Washington to deal with related matters. FFI quality products are unique and exclusive, and its target consumers are women with upper-middle to upper-end incomes. FFI's competitive edge is that the products are 100% handmade, unlike competitor's products. By this fact, the firm hopes to attract people
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Finanacial accounting assignement. Q2. Explain the meaning and importance of cash flow statement and funds flow statement. Also explain the difference between cash flow statement and funds flow statement. Ans.2. Fund flow statement is referred as sources and application of funds. It helps in showing detailed revenue received from sources and the amount of money used by the business for many purposes in that Financial Year. This statement provides addition information which is not generally covered
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component of balancing supply in order to meet customer needs while ensuring costs are kept low. Without proper forecasting, companies can see a direct hit to their bottom line by keeping too much inventory resulting in capacity issues, as well as by losing customers due to not having enough inventory. In the case of Yankee Fork and Hoe Company there are several issues with the forecasting system used in each department and these issues need to be rectified in order to improve cross-functionality
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The importance of inventory management evidenced by retail sales and inventory increases US retail sales increased 1.1% in February after increasing 0.4% in January. Sales of automobiles and parts as well as gasoline helped push retail sales to its largest gain since September 2011. The increase in retail sales was preceded by an increase in inventories for the month of January. The growing confidence in an improving economy has resulted in an inventory increase of 0.7% and a 1.1% increase
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ACCT 505 Solutions to Weekly Problems - Week 1 Exercise 2-4 (20 minutes) 1. | | Occupancy-Days | Electrical Costs | | High activity level (August) | 3,608 | $8,111 | | Low activity level (October) | 186 | 1,712 | | Change | 3,422 | $6,399 | Variable cost = Change in cost ÷ Change in activity = $6,399 ÷ 3,422 occupancy-days = $1.87 per occupancy-day | Total cost (August) | $8,111 | | Variable cost element ($1.87 per occupancy-day × 3,608 occupancy-days)
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concentrates on the conversation between Melaney and his son about the company’s inventory level and ways to manage goods orders of the upcoming spring seaso. So far, the company has changed the method of managing orders through purchasing the Rytech computer system, nevertheless, it seems that Joe Father has not totally trusted this system. Rytech system is expected to reduce the level of inventory by 30% through the method Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) applied in the period of re-ordering
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accumulation in three types of organizations: service, merchandising, and manufacturing. We will scrutinize the similarities and differences in the flow of costs in these organizations, focusing particularly on how they accumulate costs for valuing inventory and reporting income. Because cost allocations play an integral role in this process, we end our discussion of this module with a brief overview of the mechanics of cost allocations. What we are going to discuss in this module is important because
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As every business concern irrespective of its size, nature, and age needs an adequate concentration on its supply chain to carry out regular business operations and survive in the international competition. A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product
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paid 40% owes difference purchased food and beverage $4,000 paid 75% in cash owes difference cash sales $4,00 Schumacher Company uses the perpetual inventory system, and it engaged in the following transactions during 2012: 1) Started the business by issuing common stock for $7,500 cash 2) Paid cash to purchase $5,000 of inventory 3) Sold inventory that cost $3, What might a small business owner do when faced with a cash crunch (shortage of cash) How does that compare to what a corporate management
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