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Maridadi limited a privately owned company, specializes in the manufacture of these products namely, hair combs, hair rollers and hair bands. For the financial year commencing 1...

      

Maridadi limited a privately owned company, specializes in the manufacture of these products
namely, hair combs, hair rollers and hair bands.
For the financial year commencing 1 August 2008, the sales manager has prepared the following
two possible sales forecasts:

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3. Direct labour cost will be restricted to a maximum of sh. 250,000 in the period. This is
assumed that labour is of the same grade and is freely transferable between products
4. Other resources are expected to be available
Required:
i. Identify the principal budget factor
ii. Calculate the sales budget mix that you would recommend to maximize profit
iii. Compute the maximum profit that could be generated by Maridadi limited.

  

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Martin
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marto answered the question on February 22, 2019 at 06:59


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