Publications by Samuel Gagnon
Week 2: 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. This is forecasting. It predicts when sales will decrease or increase. Knowing economics ...
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Week 2: Applications 1
Company Comptus Characteristics of the company Comptus focuses on creating reliable and accurate environmental sensors. Some of the products they provide are wind, humidity, infrared, pressure, and pressure sensors. They also specialize in transmitters. Some of the industries that Comptus provides for is Aerospace, Automotive, Mining, safety...
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Week 3: 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 1...
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Application 2
## # 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 194...
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Week 4: Best Practices 3
Chater Openning Questions Managers need to know: Managers need to know the monetary policies and how they will affect their business. They also need to know how it will affect their customers. Knowing these thing will help the managers with their forecasting. Summary Causes of Recessions How it works Associated Recessions monetary policy T...
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Week 4: Real World Applications 3
Economic Dashboard Market Indicators Economic Indicators What is your reading of the economy? Based off the graphs the economy will begin to decline. One of the Most important indicators is the housing market. This market is volatile and is a leading indicator of the economy. Before the 2007 recession there was a spike in the housing market...
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Week 5: Best Practices 4
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to monitor: A manager needs to watch the inputs and output of the prices. The will show the profit margin. The price changes will affect the profit margins. The facts about inflation Volatility: CPI < PPI Finished Goods < PPI Intermediate Goods < PPI Crude Materials Price Growth: CPI > PPI Finished G...
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Week 5: Real World 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....
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Week 6: Best Practices 5
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to monitor: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Managers also need to monitor their relationships with their vendors. This is a part of planning for a recession or a downturn. ## Summary Managing through the Business Cycle Steps Description Assess vulnerability to the recession ...
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Week 7: Best Practices 6
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to develop an early warning system that includes: cost, sales, end user data and seasonal adjustment. Summary Managing through the Business Cycle Steps Description macroeconomic warning signals The early warning system should include indicators for the overall economy and the relevant industry. end-...
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