TY - BOOK AU - Bails,Dale AU - Peppers,Larry C. TI - Business fluctuations: forecasting techniques and applications SN - 0130933945 U1 - 338.5442 BAL PY - 1993/// CY - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. PB - Prentice Hall KW - Business cycles KW - Business forecasting N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Business forcasting; macroeconomic forces shaping the environment of the business sector; data collection and analysis; forecasting and forecast evaluation; simple linear regression; multiple regression models; advanced topics in regression analysis; time series models; advanced time series models; monitoring and revising forecasts; communicating the forecast to management management N2 - Introduces students to the broad institutional environment surrounding the business sector, with emphasis on the forecasting skills through coverage of forecasting models and techniques and applications. Examples are used to illustrate the process involved in generating forecasts ER -