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Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Predicting the weather hasn't always been possible, and even today it isn't always accurate. However, meteorologists do their best to study past and current weather patterns to make educated guesses about how the weather may be in the near future. Meteorologists use a number of tools to help them forecast the weather, such as weather balloons, satellites, and Doppler radar. Readers will learn that these tools help meteorologists forecast the weather...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to create and manage effective sales forecasts. Learn why forecasting is critical, and how to use qualitative and quantitative methods to project sales.
Sales forecasting is crucial for almost any business, because it affects sales deployment, financial planning, budgeting, operations planning, and marketing planning. Since sales forecasts have far-reaching impact, it's critical that the forecast information is as accurate as possible....
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Excel to forecast sales more effectively. Instructor Michael McDonald offers a primer on sales forecasting, regression analysis, data set construction, and more.
Creating accurate and reliable sales forecasts is essential for any sales leader. Professor Michael McDonald shows how to use Excel to forecast sales more effectively, beginning with a quick primer on sales forecasting, then explaining the business intelligence used in forecasting...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to create and manage effective sales forecasts. Learn why forecasting is critical, and how to use qualitative and quantitative methods to project sales.
Sales forecasting is crucial for almost any business, because it affects sales deployment, financial planning, budgeting, operations planning, and marketing planning. Since sales forecasts have far-reaching impact, it's critical that the forecast information is as accurate as possible....
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn where a business is headed and the resources it will need to succeed. Find out how to build financial forecasts using income statements and balance sheets.
Learn where a company is headed and the resources it will need to succeed. Forecasting Using Financial Statements provides a deep dive into the mathematics of financial forecasting. Dig into the numbers and find out how to build a complete forecast from start to finish, using Excel or Google...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Use Excel's data-analysis tools to create accurate and insightful forecasts.
Professor Wayne Winston has taught advanced forecasting techniques to Fortune 500 companies for more than twenty years. In this course, he shows how to use Excel's data-analysis tools—including charts, formulas, and functions—to create accurate and insightful forecasts. Learn how to display time-series data visually; make sure your forecasts are accurate, by computing...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives will look like once it has"--
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.
Big data is transforming the world of business. Yet many people don't understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to apply the techniques to their day-to-day jobs. This course addresses that knowledge gap, giving businesspeople practical methods to create quick and relevant business forecasts using big data. Join Professor Michael McDonald...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cold fronts and warm fronts are more than meteorological mumbo jumbo. With a little training, you can look at cloud patterns, know whether rain is on the way, and what type of storm to expect. As you dig into the fascinating world of weather patterns, you’ll learn how to survive lightning, floods, tornadoes, and more.
11) A longer fall
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Get an introduction to simple exponential smoothing, including how to assemble the forecast equation and optimize forecasts.
Exponential smoothing is a term for a set of straightforward forecasting procedures that apply self-correction. Each forecast comprises two components. It's a weighted average of the prior forecast, plus an adjustment that would have made the prior forecast more accurate. Smoothing—like most credible approaches to forecasting—requires...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to create forecasted financial statements for your company, including forecasted income statements, forecasted balance sheets, and forecasted statements of cash flow.
Financial reports are not just summaries of the past—they also include predictions for the future. In fact, most financial institutions are more interested in future performance than historical trends. Banks want to know your future cash flow; investors want to know future...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to use Microsoft Excel to quickly create financial forecasts with analytics and big data.
Big data is transforming the world of business. Yet many people don't understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to use that data to evaluate key metrics for their firm in the future. This course addresses that knowledge gap, giving business people practical methods to create financial forecasts with business analytics and big...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Data analysis, modeling, and forecasting are increasingly important for many jobs. This course shows how to use Stata to easily learn data, modeling, and forecasting basics.
Working with data is an important part of many jobs, and in the future, it will be important for even more. In this course, financial forecaster Jason Schenker teaches important fundamentals about data, economic modeling basics, and how to forecast with Stata. He guides you through...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn about a forecasting technique that recognizes and accounts for trends in a baseline, as well as how to run the trend forecast analysis in R.
Simple exponential smoothing (SES) incorporates most of the elements used in the smoothing approach to forecasting, such as a level smoothing constant, self-correction, and the gradual weakening of the influence of older observations on new forecasts. But SES works poorly with baselines that display either...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to perform seasonal baseline smoothing with R and Excel and incorporate seasonal variation for more accurate and insightful forecasts.
Seasonal exponential smoothing is an extension of simple exponential smoothing (SES). Seasonal smoothing is often used when a baseline shows regular seasonal peaks and valleys. Residential water usage is a familiar example: consumption rises during the summer and fall and drops during winter and spring—but...
Series
Accounting and finance clips volume 1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
v. 1. What do a company's accounts tell you? Why are they important? This is a simple guide to the profit and loss account (income statement) and balance sheet. Together these documents form the basis for a company's annual report. The balance sheet provides a snapshot of a firm's financial health - but what do we mean by financial health? --v. 2. Working capital is getting tight at Blakeway and Maynard wants to know what's going wrong. One reason:...
Author
Language
English
Description
What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night. That's how she met her ex-boyfriend and current best friend, Hugo, the only person in Daphne's life who knows of her secret. Followed by a string of men and countless dates, Daphne resigned herself to the fact that she was...
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