Often small business owners/managers feel they have inadequate time for formal forecasting and/or that they lack the … expertise to do so. Since forecasting is an important decision-aiding tool, managers in small retail establishments can benefit … by implementing a simple forecasting process. Doing so will enable them to better anticipate the firms future level of …

Accurate forecasting has become a challenge for companies operating in today's business environment, characterized by … functions. Increasingly, successful forecasting warrants the use of composite methodologies that incorporate a range of … traditional quantitative forecasting methods. Four integration methodologies are presented and evaluated relative to their …

‐economic analysis. It is aimed at forecasting problems, such as impact assessment for future policy formulation in the light of socio …‐economics to attack what was previously seen as a difficult gap between the two. It also finds that quantitative forecasting, based … form a basis for quantitative forecasting. Different scenarios may be linked to corresponding quantitative economic …

from the introduction of new products, and existing forecasting methods such as ARIMA do not explicitly account for the … phenomenon. This paper aims to present a methodology to build cannibalization effects into forecasting models as measured through …