Publications by Caeleb Fortunato
Best Practices 1
Chapter 1 It’s Not Just about Forecasting The following are the key points in the chapter. Elaborate on each point in at least 30 words. Understanding economics can help you to diagnose the causes of increases or decreases in sales volumes and costs. Understanding trends in economics and understanding how growth and change is important to und...
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Application 1 Week 2
Grappone Automotive Group State the name of your company. ^ Grappone Automotive Group is a car dealership that has both new and used vehicles for sale, and has a total of about 340 employees that are treated like family. They also have a very community oriented outlook when it comes to how their buyers see them. They work in the car sales, and se...
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Best Practices 2 Week 3
## # A tibble: 1,096 × 5 ## # Groups: symbol [8] ## symbol date price change text ## <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <glue> ## 1 GDPC1 1947-01-01 2034. NA 1947.1, ## Growth: NA ## 2 GDPC1 1947-04-01 2029. -0.00267 1947.2, ## Growth: -0.3% ## 3 GDPC1 1947-07-01 2025. -0.00207 1947.3, #...
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Week3Applications2
## # A tibble: 384 × 5 ## # Groups: symbol [2] ## symbol date price change text ## <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <glue> ## 1 GDPC1 1947-01-01 2034. NA 1947.1, ## Growth: NA ## 2 GDPC1 1947-04-01 2029. -0.00267 1947.2, ## Growth: -0.3% ## 3 GDPC1 1947-07-01 2025. -0.00207 1947.3, ## ...
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Week4BestPractices3
Chater Openning Questions Managers need to know: A business leader should understand what a recession is, and if recession is possible within their time or their field, no business is safe from recession, if it falls everything goes with it as well. They should look to find the symbols of a downfall, including market crashes, tariffs and governm...
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Week4Applications3
Economic Dashboard Market Indicators Economic Indicators What is your reading of the economy? Make your argument based on your analysis of the given charts. Discuss timing and depth of changes in the economic data relative to recessions in at least 50 words. Based on the consumer price index it seems to be in an upward trend, but when things g...
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Week5BestPractices4
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to monitor: A manager would need to know that crude material prices are highly volatile, but they have low average-growth rates. Oil, steel and agriculture have large fluctuations and fuels, processed foods and cold-rolled steel are milder with smaller effects on consumers than a company. Labor imtensive ...
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Week5Applications4
Economic Dashboard Grappone outputPrice = Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: New Vehicles in U.S. City Average inputPrice = Producer Price Index by Industry: New Car Dealers: New Vehicle Sales Bank of New Hampshire outputPrice = Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity inputPrice = Market Yield on U.S. ...
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Week6BestPractices5
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to monitor: A manager needs to know how to plan for downturn and recession. Summary Managing through the Business Cycle Steps Description Assess vulnerability to the recession “How vulnerable is our company to recession or a slowdown in sales?” Assess the vulnerability in terms of magnitude and tim...
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Week6Applications5
The vunerability assessment Analyze the data for your client company’s industry and answer the following questions. How much have sales in the industry declined in the recession? What’s the worst that has happened in the past? The sales in the industry declined at an alarming rate during recession, looking at the economic crash in 2008, the ...
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