Sheet-09 Moving Average Method Example-1: ABC Company has the following manpower data for their health care division for the past six years: |Year |Manpower level/Data | | |(in nos.) | |2003 |500 | |2004 |600 | |2005 |800 | |2006 |1,000
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Forecasting Tammy Powell HSM/260 December 19, 2014 Adrianne Franklin Exercise 9.3 Moving Averages 20X2-20X4 $18,250,000 / 3 = $6,083,333 Weighted Moving Averages 20X2 $5,500,000 1 $5,500,000 20X3 $6,000,000 2 $12,000,000 20X4 $6,750,000 3 $20,250,000 __ ___________ 6 $37,750,000 20X5 $37,750,000 /6 = $6,291,667 Exponential Smoothing NF = LF + a (LD – LF) NF = $6,300,000 + 0.95($6,750,000 - $6,300,000) = $6,300
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Previous demand Consistent demand Repeat demand Question 3.3. (TCO 5) Which of the following forecasting methodologies is considered a causal forecasting technique? (Points : 3) Exponential smoothing Weighted moving average Linear regression Historical analogy Market research Question 4.4. (TCO 5) Which of the following forecasting methods uses executive judgment as its primary component for forecasting? (Points : 3)
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Int. Fin. Markets, Inst. and Money 29 (2014) 13–32 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money j o ur na l ho me pa ge : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / i n t f i n Unbiasedness and risk premiums in the Indian currency futures market Satish Kumar a, Stefan Trück b,∗ a b IBS Hyderabad (a Constituent of ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education), India Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia a r t i c l e
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zero or in other words, reduce your risk to nothing not including the cost of the hedge. If a correlation is negative, as it was for the first three months, it means that investing in futures contracts was the right move because the cash flows are moving in opposite directions to minimize the risk. Another way to evaluate the performance of the hedging strategy is to compare the variance of unhedged cash flow and the hedged cash flow, expecting that that variance of the unhedged should be greater
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GROUP PROJECT Pasquet Ferdinand Ravera Quentin I- Presentation of the company The company was founded by Walter Chrysler (1875–1940) on June 6, 1925. The headquarters are in Auburn Hills in the Michigan. The brand was at the beginning a premium luxury position competing with the brands Cadillac. Chrysler was the top brand in the portfolio of what was then known as Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler's positioning changed several times over the years. Indeed, The Chrysler brand was originally
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Starbucks. A simple moving average was used for the first two models using 5 weeks past (figure 1) data and 3 weeks past data (Figure 2. The next method used was a exponential smoothing method with .4 alpha and 5 weeks data (Figure 3) and .2 alpha with 3 weeks data (Figure 4). The mean absolute deviation, mean absolute percent error and tracking signal were calculated based off of the total of all segments. Simple Moving Average Looking at Figure 1 and Figure 2 where a moving average forecast
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the 12 separate indices. The forecast was processed by Running mean Absolute Deviation (RMAD) was computed by taking the average of two one-year-wide averages that are offset by one period relative to each other. Computing the ratio divided by the moving average in each period. Running sum of forecast errors were computed by taking the differences between the actual and the forecast demand for the periods being evaluated. | | | | | | Alpha | 0.2 | | | | Month | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | Forecast
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than to just keep the existing one Slide 2- Learning objectives You should be able to: -Explain the role of demand forecasting -Identify the components of a forecast -Be able to calculate the following forecast: -simple moving average forecast -weighted Moving Average Forecast -Understand the principles behind calculating: -exponential smoothing forecast -linear Trend forecast -Simple and Multiple regressions Note: for data forecasting you will use historical data to calculate
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