Publications by Samuel Gagnon
Week 7: Real World Applications 6
Survey of Professional Forecasters The author writes on page 31: "At the beginning of 2001, the economy was not in recession. The fourth quarter of 2000 data had not been released but would, in time, show that the economy had grown by 2.2 percent in twelve months. Forecasters were nervous, however. The consensus forecast published by the Federal ...
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Week 8: Best Practices 7
Chater Openning Questions A manager needs to: Know how to prepare for a recession and the recovery. They need to know each step of their plan and how it will affect their business. Summary Table of possible options in a contingency plan Expecting a downturn During moderate downturns During severe recessions capital spending reevaluate cut en...
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Week 8: Real World Applications 7
Evaluate your client company’s contingency plan Read your client company’s response, see whether it is consistent with lessons we learned in chapter seven and whether you can improve it by applying this week’s lessons. Elaborate at least in 200 words and cite the lessons from the Best Practices 7 assignment. Comptus’s long term conting...
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Week 9: Real World Applications 8
None of our client companies operate in a foreign country. They don’t sell into a foreign market. Nor do they manufacture in a foreign market. So we will use a hypothetical manufacturing company, Daewoo, for the assignment. Daewoo is an American automobile manufacturing company that makes cars in the U.S. and sells in the U.K. market. Assum...
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Week 10: Best Practices 9
Chapter Opening Questions A business manager, to assess the risk of a regional recession, needs to monitor the regional policies, the regional economic cycle, and have a regional early warning system. Managers need to know how these will affect their company with the region they are located in. Summary Although a regional economic cycle is no...
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Week 10: Real World Applications 9
Economic Dashboard Location Quotient https://www.analyticsforeconomics.com/ Your interpretation Examine the chart above and answer the following questions in at least 200 words. What is the status of New Hampshire’s economy now? Is it in a recession? Is a recession around the corner? How similar is New Hampshire’s economy to its U.S. cou...
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Week 11: Real World Applications 10
Assume Daewoo, a hypothetical oil extraction company, has the following cost structure. It spends: • $40/barrel on labor costs, raw materials, energy, and • $35/barrel on interest, depreciation, insurance, and administrative staff expense. Read the textbook carefully, and answer the following questions. A recession hits, the market price ...
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Navigating the Economic Cycles
2022-11-13 About Comptus Comptus focuses on creating reliable and accurate environmental sensors. Some of the products they provide are wind, humidity, infrared, and pressure sensors. They also specialize in transmitters. Some of the industries that Comptus provides for is Aerospace, Automotive, Mining, safety, and engineering services. Their re...
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Week 14: Best Practices 11
Write one key takeaway per chapter. Write at least 100 words for each chapter summary. Ch1 It’s Not Just about Forecasting The first chapter is an introduction into forecasting and understanding economics. Forecasting helps to diagnose the causes of increases or decreases in sales volumes and costs. Knowing economics help people make more ...
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Week 14: Real World Applications 11
Summarize article Read the assigned Forbes article and summarize in at least 100 words. The article starts off by mention how inflation has increased from 1.2% to 8.2%. Two years ago gold was at the price of $1,905 and today it is at $1,621. It has lost 16% of its value. Mining stocks have also lost a lot of value. Mining stocks usally make v...
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