Publications by Rachael Milliken
BestPractice1
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 the explanation of what happened helpes the increase of sales,if the sales go d...
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Application 1
Company Comptus Characteristics of the company Comptus is a private company that has been in the industry for 31 years.Comptus sensors and transmitters are deployed around the globe in a broad range of industries including the agricultural, environmental, energy/utility, education, municipal/government, and recreation markets. Their industry typ...
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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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Applications 2
## # 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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Chater Openning 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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Applications 3
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. Market indicators With the housing chart the economy heavily impacts this industry. In...
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Chapter Opening Questions A manager needs to monitor: 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 Crude Materials There are thousands of specific indexes to choose from. So it is important to pick a correct pri...
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Applications 4
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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Chater Opening Questions A manager needs to monitor: 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 in sales using national data on the company’s ...
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Real Application 5
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? In 2008 in the beginning of the recession the growth rate was -.6%. In 2007 before the recession the growth rate wa...
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