Introduction
                                    
                                        Using Excel for sales forecasting
                                            
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                                1. The Basics
                                    
                                        What is sales forecasting?
                                            
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                                        Business intelligence and company sales
                                            
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                                2. What Goes into a Forecast?
                                    
                                        Conventional forecasting methods
                                            
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                                        Basics of business regression analysis
                                            
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                                        Predict values with regression analysis
                                            
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                                        Budgeting and forecasting using growth rates
                                            
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                                3. Getting Data for a Forecast
                                    
                                        Gather sales data
                                            
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                                        Using data from FRED
                                            
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                                        Clean sales data
                                            
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                                        Identifying outliers
                                            
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                                        What do the results mean?
                                            
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                                        Confidence intervals around the result
                                            
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                                        Stress testing the results
                                            
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                                4. Putting It All Together
                                    
                                        Customer transaction forecasting
                                            
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                                        Running forecasts with non-numerical data
                                            
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                                        Interpreting your forecast
                                            
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                                Conclusion
                                    
                                        Running your own analysis
                                            
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                                    Ex_Files_Excel_Sales_Forecasting.zip
                                    
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