Business Forecasting

Presents a survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches, with a focus on acceptable methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins. This text integrates a useful software tool, and uses wizards to make forecasting understandable.

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"Business Forecasting with Forecast X", 4/e, by Wilson and Keating is a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. The focus, however, is on the most proven acceptable methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins. This exciting new edition integrates the most comprehensive software tool available in this market, "Forecast X". This excel-based tool - which received a 4 point out 5 rating from PC Magazine, Oct. 2, 2000 issue - effectively uses wizards and many tools to make forecasting easy and understandable. The user may customize output from the "Forecast X" package in a myriad of ways.