The Handbook of forecasting : a manager's guide
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The Handbook of forecasting : a manager's guide
Wiley, c1987
2nd ed
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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference explains which forecasting methods work, which do not - and why. Leading forecasters, planners and developers address specific issues and problems of forecasting, including management requirements for forecasts, techniques for preparing forecasts, issues in forecasting applications and managing the forecasting function. This updated edition features new chapters on load forecasting, demographic forecasting, high-order smoothing methods, ARIMA models and forecasting using experience curves. Also examined are the forecasting challenges of the 80's and pinpoint guidance to management planning techniques are offered.
Table of Contents
- ROLE AND APPLICATION OF FORECASTING IN ORGANIZATIONS: Introduction to Management Forecasting
- Sales Forecasting Requirements
- Forecasting Requirements for Operations Planning and Control
- Capacity Planning Forecasting Requirements
- Forecasting and Strategic Planning
- Forecasting in the Electric Utility Industry
- State and Local Government Revenue Forecasting
- Forecasting: The Issues
- APPROACHES TO FORECASTING: Smoothing Methods for Short-Term Planning and Control
- A Practical Overview of ARIMA MODELS for Time Series Forecasting
- Decomposition Methods for Medium-Term Planning and Budgeting
- FORECASTING CHALLENGES: Forecasting and the Environment: The Challenges of Rapid Change
- Life-Cycle Forecasting
- Forecasting Recessions
- MANAGING THE FORECASTING FUNCTION: Forecasting and Planning: An Evaluation
- Integrating Forecasting and Decision Making
- The Forecasting Audit
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"