UNITED STATES ECONOMIC FORECAST THROUGH 2012 The US economy is expected to grow at a really slow pace given the fiscal outlook and government cuts in spending. It is unlikely that there will be a government stimulus package in 2012 and the reason being a divisive politics in congress and also the piling up of the public debt. Fiscal policy in the past years helped to stimulate the economy especially after the inauguration of Barack Obama. Obama signed into law 787 billion dollar stimulus package
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Sales Forecast Memo The objective of this memo is to discuss the predictions of automobile sales in the US for the month of March 2012. The prediction is to take into account the historic data (provided) and current marketing environment. At first‚ two approaches of the analytical (quantitative) method were used – moving average and exponential smoothing. The objective of doing so was to get an idea of the prediction based on historic data only. Once that was done‚ the marketing environment
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Gold Prices Forecast As we all know that gold prices are fluctuating widely over the last few years‚ and a wide increase in the bullion rates has been recorded. According to economists and forecasters‚ there are different reasons of this widespread increase in gold prices. Most of them say that this is because of the relationship between crude oil and gold. And because of this correlation between prices of oil and gold‚ the gold prices are constantly changing but its not the only reason these
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Interim Budget 2014 Global cues not to overly hit India‚ India held its head above water during global crisis Fiscal deficit for 2013-14 will be contained at 4.6% Export seen at $326 billion showing 6.3 per cent year-on-year growth Growth for FY14 estimated at 4.9%; Q3‚ Q4 growth seen at 5.2% I reject the argument of policy paralysis Let history be the judge of last 10 years Economy in much better shape now than it was two years ago 10-year trend growth rate at 6.2 per cent‚ UPA I and II
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The advertising budget of a business is typically a subset of the larger sales budget and‚ within that‚ the marketing budget. Advertising is a part of the sales and marketing effort. Money spent on advertising can also be seen as an investment in building up the business. In order to keep the advertising budget in line with promotional and marketing goals‚ a business owner should start by answering several important questions: 1. Who is the target consumer? Who is interested in purchasing the
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organisational vision and develop a unified sense of direction. You will need to conduct an environmental scanning/analysis. Identify short a long term goals and make sure they are realistic and achievable. You would need to develop with relevant personnel strategies and plans for goal achievement as well as financial plans. These plans would need to be communicated to stakeholders and then implement these plans. During this process you must set appropriate KRA’s and KPI’s and track‚ monitor and evaluate the
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Forecast of AUD/USD: [pic] Table 1: Inflation rate for US and AU in 2012 to 2017 1 [pic] Table 2: GDP growth rate and unemployment rate for AU and US in 2008 to 2017 2 In short term‚ Australia is facing higher inflation rate (2.9%) than the United States (2.1%)‚ this can lead to the domestic market price increase but not much fluctuation for currency exchange rate. Moreover‚ Australia has higher GDP growth rate than United States (3.5% vs 2.4%) and lower unemployment rate than US‚ which
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TERM- PAPER Lost Sales Forecast Table of Contents Introduction 3 Carlson Department Store Sales data for September 1992 through August 1996 4 Countywide Department Stores Sales data for September 1992 through August 1996 5 Choosing the appropriate forecasting method 6 Trend and Seasonal Components in Forecasting 7 An estimate of lost sales for the Carlson Department Store 10 Conclusion 10 Introduction The
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Introduction A budget is considered as a standard to facilitate control work activities of the organization. Budgets are planning tools prepared firstly to start the period being budgeted. Valuable information about the performance contains of the difference between the actual results and the planning budgets. Therefore‚ budgets are both planning tools and performance evaluation. The most common important element in budget is some measure of anticipated output such as the number
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Element 1 Prepare Budget Information Research Assignment. 1. Mountain View Hotel organisational chart‚ profit or cost center and people who are involved in the budget committee. People who involve in budget committee are: General Manager‚ Resident Manager‚ Sales and Marketing Manager‚ Food and beverage Manager‚ Hotel Accountant‚ Maintenance Manager‚ Front Office Manager and Housekeeping Manager. 2. As the Executive Chef you are responsible for developing your activity centers budget. The general
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