Microsoft Excel is a useful tool for tracking data. By providing past sales data and other factors that affect your sales, you can use Excel's Forecast function to forecast future sales numbers. This ...

Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

What is Business Assist Forecast Service? Business Assist Forecast Service is an add-in for Excel that uses machine learning to predict case and conversation volumes based on historical data.

Involved with forecasting? Here is a book designed to help readers with the tools to analyze their data, develop forecasting models and present the results in Excel. With the advent of the computer, ...

With trendlines, Excel can project future figures based on previous history. Mary Ann Richardson points the way. Let’s say you are keeping track of monthly sales figures for the past six months ...

Microsoft Excel is a digital Swiss Army Knife for data analysts. While basic functions serve as the foundation, you need to explore advanced ones to unlock Excel’s sophisticated capabilities. By ...

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Before businesses were lucky enough to be able to create sales forecasts in Excel, business owners had to enter numbers on columnar pads and add the figures with a calculator. If a single number ...