General Description of Company % Increase or Decrease
1. Overall versus last year a company is running an increase or a decrease.
2. Many items are experiencing these same increase or decrease phenomena.
3. Therefore a likely forecast strategy that can be tested is :
-- F15=Q4(Co%+/-) month by month what we sold last year times the %+ or - using the company expectation.
4. The MyGate Software calculates the %+ or - for the total data set before every forecast session.
5. It will use this formula with this %+ or - if it works better than any other formula tested on this item.