BFO-7010 Business Forecasting
This course introduces students to the business forecasting process. They will examine and apply the most commonly used business forecasting methods. Emphasis is on methods that are replicable, testable, and have been shown to work. Simple forecasting methods, time series graphs, judgmental forecasts, time series regression and decomposition, exponential smoothing, and Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models will be investigated. The course discusses practical issues related to the forecasting process.