Publications by Carley Latorre
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. There are multiple factors that can cause an increase or decrease of economic values for a co...
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Real World Applications 1
Comptus State the name of your company. Comptus is mostly known for its manufacturing of many different types of weather and environmental sensors. Some of those sensors include lightning detection, rain gauges, and wind sensors. The company is estimated to be worth between $1-9.99 million with under 20 employees company-wide, so it is still a r...
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Best Practices 2
## # 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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Applications2
## # A tibble: 548 × 5 ## # Groups: symbol [4] ## 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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bestpractices3
Chapter Opening Questions Managers need to know: Summary Causes of Recessions How it works Associated Recessions monetary policy The Fed can slow the economy by tightening monetary policy, which decreases the money supply and/or raises interest rates. Higher interests reduce economic activity by increasing financing costs. all recessions? The ...
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Economic Dashboard Market Indicators Economic Indicators What is your reading of the economy? Based on the patterns of the charts given and looking back at past recessions, it does look like we are currently on the brink of another recession. All the indicators, aside from the Exchange Volatility Index, are following the same patterns that exi...
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Chapter Opening Questions A manager needs to monitor: prices of the inputs and prices of the outputs because the difference between the two is the profit margin. The facts about inflation Volatility: CPI < PPI Finished Goods < PPI Intermediate Goods < PPI Crude Materials Price Growth: CPI > PPI Finished Goods > PPI Intermediate Goods > PPI Crud...
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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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Chapter Opening Questions A manager needs to monitor: the business’s vulnerability to a 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 timing of slowdowns ...
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The vulnerability 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 company Comptus has only been through 2 recessions in it’s history, the one in 2008 and the small one that o...
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