Sales of a New Line of Athletic Footwear Are Crucial

question 25

Essay

Sales of a new line of athletic footwear are crucial to the success of a newly formed company. The company wishes to estimate the average weekly sales of the new footwear to within $150 with 90% reliability. The initial sales indicate that the standard deviation of the weekly sales figures is approximately $1650. How many weeks of data must be sampled for the company to get the information it desires?

---

Definitions:

Activity-Based Costing

A method of costing that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each.

Fabrication Activity Cost Pool

A grouping of all the costs associated with the fabrication activities in a manufacturing process, used in activity-based costing.

Idle Capacity

Idle capacity refers to the unused portion of the total capacity of a manufacturing unit which could otherwise be used to produce goods and generate revenue.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to specific activities, improving the accuracy of product costing.