Business Forecasting with ForecastX Software/Student CD

Talks about practical forecasting and contains the software - "Forecast X". This book presents a survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. It focuses on the methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins.

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The Fifth Edition of Business Forecasting is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software—Forecast X. This new edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always, the author team of Wilson and Keating deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques, while theory and math are held to a minimum. This edition focuses on the most proven, acceptable methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins. This new edition continues to integrate the most comprehensive software tool available in this market, Forecast X. With the addition of ForeCastX, this text provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of forecasting concepts with the most technologically sophisticated software package on the market. 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.