Data on Demand Over the Last Few Years Are Available

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Data on demand over the last few years are available as follows: $$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Time Period } & \text { Demand } \\\hline 7 \text { years ago } & 7 \\6 \text { years ago } & 28 \\\text { 5 years ago } & 21 \\\text { 4 years ago } & 42 \\\text { 3 years ago } & 35 \\\text { 2 years ago } & 56 \\\text { Last year } & 49\end{array}$$ What are this and next year's forecasts using the least squares trend line for these data?

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Definitions:

Unit Product Cost

The total cost incurred to produce, store, and sell one unit of a product, including direct materials, direct labor, and allocated overhead.

Activity Rate

The cost driver rate used in activity-based costing to allocate costs more accurately to products or services based on specific activities.

Activity Cost Pool

A category in activity-based costing that aggregates costs incurred from a specific activity, facilitating the assignment of those costs to products or services based on their use of the activity.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to related products and services based on the amount of resources they consume.