"The Fifth Edition of Business Forecasting" is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software - "Forecast X" . This new edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always, the author team of Wilson and Keating deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques, while theory and math are held to a minimum. This edition focuses on the most proven, acceptable methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins. This new edition continues to integrate the most comprehensive software tool available in this market, "Forecast X" . With the addition of "ForeCast X" , this text provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of forecasting concepts with the most technologically sophisticated software package on the market. This Excel-based tool (which received a 4 point out 5 rating from PC Magazine, Oct. 2, 2000 issue) effectively uses wizards and many tools to make forecasting easy and understandable.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Business Forecasting
Chapter 2 The Forecast Process, Data Considerations, and Model Selection
Chapter 3 Moving Averages and Exponential Smoothing
Chapter 4 Introduction to Forecasting with Regression Methods
Chapter 5 Forecsting with Multiple Regression
Chapter 6 Times Series Decompostion
Chapter 7 ARIMA (Bo-Jenkins) Type Forecasting Models
Chapter 8 Combining Forecast Results
Chapter 9 Forecast Implementation

Index