When you dive into Excel, you quickly realize the power it holds for data analysis and prediction. Two of the most potent tools at your disposal are the TREND and FORECAST functions. These functions ...

Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

Effective financial planning and precise forecasting are critical to achieving business growth and long-term sustainability. Companies must efficiently manage budgets, predict future performance, and ...

Involved with forecasting? Here is a book designed to help readers with the tools to analyze their data, develop forecasting models and present the results in Excel. With the advent of the computer, ...

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With trendlines, Excel can project future figures based on previous history. Mary Ann Richardson points the way. Let’s say you are keeping track of monthly sales figures for the past six months ...

A Microsoft model can make accurate 10-day forecasts quickly, an analysis found. And, it’s designed to predict more than weather. By Rebecca Dzombak Weather forecasters rely on models to help them ...