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The dynamics of business cycles : a study of economic fluctuations / / Jan Tinbergen and J.J. Polak
| The dynamics of business cycles : a study of economic fluctuations / / Jan Tinbergen and J.J. Polak |
| Autore | Tinbergen Jan <1903-1994, > |
| Edizione | [[English ed.].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.542 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | PolakJ. J <1914-2010.> (Jacques Jacobus) |
| Soggetto topico |
Business cycles
Business forecasting |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-35718-4
1-280-23189-0 9786610231898 0-203-50131-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE DYNAMICS OF BUSINESS CYCLES A Study of Economic Fluctuations; Copyright; THE DYNAMICS of BUSINESS CYCLES A Study in Economic Fluctuations; Copyright; PREFACE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Part I. Description; Chapter I. Introduction: Types Of Movements; Elementary Movements; The Components of Composite Movements; The Relationship between the Movements of Two Series; The Relationship among Movements of Three or More Series; Chapter II.Long-Run Developments; Population; Land; Productivity; The Stock of Capital; The Volume of Output; Prices; Financial Development; Changes in Trend after World War I
Chapter III.Interruptions And Sudden Changes In StructurePeriods of War and Inflation; The Periods of Inflation after 1914 in Germany and France; Minor Interruptions; Sudden Changes in Economic Structure; Chapter IVCyclical Movements; Period; Damping; Timing; Amplitude; Shape; Chapter V Seasonal Fluctuations; Chapter VIRandom Movements; Chapter VIIDifferences Among Individual Countries; Trends; Cycles; Seasonal Patterns; Random Movements; Incidental Events; Chapter VIIIFluctuations In Individual Markets; Hog Cycle; Other Agricultural Cycles; Building Cycles Part IIThe Explanation Of Economic FluctuationsChapter IXEconomic Statics And Economic Dynamics; Data and Variables; Statics and Dynamics; Supply and Demand Analysis; Chapter X The Process Of Long-Run Development; The Conditions of Full Utilization of Resources; Simplifying Assumptions; The Basic Relations of the Simplified Model; Distribution of Income; Consequences of Wars; Stagnation; Money; Chapter XIPeriods Of War And Inflation; Inflation in a Closed Economy; The Quantity of Money; Inflation in an Open Economy; Chapter XIILong Waves; Monetary Theories; Other Theories Chapter XIIIBusiness-Cycle FluctuationsIntroduction; The Two Money Streams; Fluctuations in Investment; Fluctuations in Consumption; Analysis of Economic Development; Fluctuations in Income; The Main Elements of the Cyclical Process; Example I; Example II; Example III; Example IV; Expansion of Cyclical Models; Summary: Succession of the Different Phases of the Cycle; Oversaving vs. Overinvestment; Economic Structure and Cyclical Patterns; Chapter XIVCyclical Movements In Individual Markets; Introduction; The Hog Market; The Coffee Market; The Two-Year Cycle of Agricultural Products The American Market of Residential ConstructionCycles in the Import of Raw Materials; Chapter XVExogenous Movements; Chapter XVITheoretical Postscript; Part IIIBusiness-Cycle Policy; Chapter XVIIIntroduction; Objectives, Criteria, and Instruments; Measurement of Effects; Chapter XVIIIObjectives Of Trend Policy And Business-Cycle Policy; The Volume of Production; The Level of Prices; The Quantity of Money; The Distribution of Income; The Use of Income; Government; Open Economy; Monetary Equilibrium; Chapter XIXIndirect Policies. I. Tax Policies; Classification of Taxes Direct and Indirect Taxes |
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Economic and business forecasting : analyzing and interpreting econometric results / / John Silvia [and four others]
| Economic and business forecasting : analyzing and interpreting econometric results / / John Silvia [and four others] |
| Autore | Silvia John |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.01/5195 |
| Collana | Wiley & SAS Business Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic forecasting
Business forecasting Decision making Econometrics |
| ISBN |
1-118-56954-7
1-118-56980-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Economic and Business Forecasting: Analyzing and Interpreting Econometric Results; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Creating Harmony Out of Noisy Data; Effective Decision Making: Characterize the Data; Part IA: Identifying Trend in a Time Series: GDP and Public Deficits; Part IB: Identifying the Cycle for a Time Series; Part IC: Identifying the Subcycles of Economic Behavior: Use of the HP Filter; Part ID: Spotting Structural Breaks in a Time Series; Part IE: Unit Root Tests; Part IF: Modeling the Cycle; Part IG: Cointegration and Error Correction Model
Part IH: Causality-What Drives What?Part II: Measuring Volatility: ARCH/GARCH; Part IIA: Forecasting with a Regression Model; Part IIB: Forecasting Recession/Regime Switch as Either/or Outcomes; Part IIC: Forecasting with Vector Autoregression; Part IID: Forecast Evaluation; Chapter 2: First, Understand the Data; Growth: How is the Economy Doing Overall?; Personal Consumption; Gross Private Domestic Investment; Government Purchases; Net Exports of Goods and Services; Real Final Sales and Gross Domestic Purchases; The Labor Market: Always a Core Issue; Establishment Survey Data Revision: A Special ConsiderationThe Household Survey; Marrying the Labor Market Indicators Together; Jobless Claims; Inflation; Consumer Price Index: A Society's Inflation Benchmark; Producer Price Index; Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator: The Inflation Benchmark for Monetary Policy; Interest Rates: Price of Credit; The Dollar and Exchange Rates: The United States in a Global Economy; Corporate Profits; Summary; Chapter 3: Financial Ratios; Profitability Ratios; Return on Equity; Return on Assets; Corporate Profits as a Percentage of GDP; Liquidity Ratios; Leverage Ratios Investment Valuation RatioSummary; Chapter 4: Characterizing a Time Series; Why Characterize a Time Series?; How to Characterize a Time Series; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Identifying a Time Trend in a Series; Identifying the Cycle in a Time Series; Testing for a Unit Root; Structural Change: A New Normal?; Separating Cycle and Trend in a Time Series: The Hodrick-Prescott Filter; Application: Judging Economic Volatility; Look at the Data; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Corporate Profits; Focus on the Labor Market Using Monthly Data Financial Market Volatility: Assessing RiskSummary; Chapter 5: Characterizing a Relationship between Time Series; Important Test Statistics in Identifying Statistically Significant Relationships; Level of Significance and p-value; The t-Value or t-Test; The F-Test; R2 and Adjusted R2; White Noise/Autocorrelation Detection Tests; Model Selection Criteria: The AIC and SIC; Simple Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Advanced Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Cointegration Analysis The Error Correction Model |
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
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Economic and business forecasting : analyzing and interpreting econometric results / / John Silvia [and four others]
| Economic and business forecasting : analyzing and interpreting econometric results / / John Silvia [and four others] |
| Autore | Silvia John |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.01/5195 |
| Collana | Wiley & SAS Business Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic forecasting
Business forecasting Decision making Econometrics |
| ISBN |
1-118-56954-7
1-118-56980-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Economic and Business Forecasting: Analyzing and Interpreting Econometric Results; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Creating Harmony Out of Noisy Data; Effective Decision Making: Characterize the Data; Part IA: Identifying Trend in a Time Series: GDP and Public Deficits; Part IB: Identifying the Cycle for a Time Series; Part IC: Identifying the Subcycles of Economic Behavior: Use of the HP Filter; Part ID: Spotting Structural Breaks in a Time Series; Part IE: Unit Root Tests; Part IF: Modeling the Cycle; Part IG: Cointegration and Error Correction Model
Part IH: Causality-What Drives What?Part II: Measuring Volatility: ARCH/GARCH; Part IIA: Forecasting with a Regression Model; Part IIB: Forecasting Recession/Regime Switch as Either/or Outcomes; Part IIC: Forecasting with Vector Autoregression; Part IID: Forecast Evaluation; Chapter 2: First, Understand the Data; Growth: How is the Economy Doing Overall?; Personal Consumption; Gross Private Domestic Investment; Government Purchases; Net Exports of Goods and Services; Real Final Sales and Gross Domestic Purchases; The Labor Market: Always a Core Issue; Establishment Survey Data Revision: A Special ConsiderationThe Household Survey; Marrying the Labor Market Indicators Together; Jobless Claims; Inflation; Consumer Price Index: A Society's Inflation Benchmark; Producer Price Index; Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator: The Inflation Benchmark for Monetary Policy; Interest Rates: Price of Credit; The Dollar and Exchange Rates: The United States in a Global Economy; Corporate Profits; Summary; Chapter 3: Financial Ratios; Profitability Ratios; Return on Equity; Return on Assets; Corporate Profits as a Percentage of GDP; Liquidity Ratios; Leverage Ratios Investment Valuation RatioSummary; Chapter 4: Characterizing a Time Series; Why Characterize a Time Series?; How to Characterize a Time Series; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Identifying a Time Trend in a Series; Identifying the Cycle in a Time Series; Testing for a Unit Root; Structural Change: A New Normal?; Separating Cycle and Trend in a Time Series: The Hodrick-Prescott Filter; Application: Judging Economic Volatility; Look at the Data; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Corporate Profits; Focus on the Labor Market Using Monthly Data Financial Market Volatility: Assessing RiskSummary; Chapter 5: Characterizing a Relationship between Time Series; Important Test Statistics in Identifying Statistically Significant Relationships; Level of Significance and p-value; The t-Value or t-Test; The F-Test; R2 and Adjusted R2; White Noise/Autocorrelation Detection Tests; Model Selection Criteria: The AIC and SIC; Simple Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Advanced Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Cointegration Analysis The Error Correction Model |
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Silvia John
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Economic and business forecasting : analyzing and interpreting econometric results / / John Silvia [and four others]
| Economic and business forecasting : analyzing and interpreting econometric results / / John Silvia [and four others] |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.01/5195 |
| Collana | Wiley & SAS Business Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic forecasting
Business forecasting Decision making Econometrics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-118-56954-7
1-118-56980-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Economic and Business Forecasting: Analyzing and Interpreting Econometric Results; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Creating Harmony Out of Noisy Data; Effective Decision Making: Characterize the Data; Part IA: Identifying Trend in a Time Series: GDP and Public Deficits; Part IB: Identifying the Cycle for a Time Series; Part IC: Identifying the Subcycles of Economic Behavior: Use of the HP Filter; Part ID: Spotting Structural Breaks in a Time Series; Part IE: Unit Root Tests; Part IF: Modeling the Cycle; Part IG: Cointegration and Error Correction Model
Part IH: Causality-What Drives What?Part II: Measuring Volatility: ARCH/GARCH; Part IIA: Forecasting with a Regression Model; Part IIB: Forecasting Recession/Regime Switch as Either/or Outcomes; Part IIC: Forecasting with Vector Autoregression; Part IID: Forecast Evaluation; Chapter 2: First, Understand the Data; Growth: How is the Economy Doing Overall?; Personal Consumption; Gross Private Domestic Investment; Government Purchases; Net Exports of Goods and Services; Real Final Sales and Gross Domestic Purchases; The Labor Market: Always a Core Issue; Establishment Survey Data Revision: A Special ConsiderationThe Household Survey; Marrying the Labor Market Indicators Together; Jobless Claims; Inflation; Consumer Price Index: A Society's Inflation Benchmark; Producer Price Index; Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator: The Inflation Benchmark for Monetary Policy; Interest Rates: Price of Credit; The Dollar and Exchange Rates: The United States in a Global Economy; Corporate Profits; Summary; Chapter 3: Financial Ratios; Profitability Ratios; Return on Equity; Return on Assets; Corporate Profits as a Percentage of GDP; Liquidity Ratios; Leverage Ratios Investment Valuation RatioSummary; Chapter 4: Characterizing a Time Series; Why Characterize a Time Series?; How to Characterize a Time Series; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Identifying a Time Trend in a Series; Identifying the Cycle in a Time Series; Testing for a Unit Root; Structural Change: A New Normal?; Separating Cycle and Trend in a Time Series: The Hodrick-Prescott Filter; Application: Judging Economic Volatility; Look at the Data; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Corporate Profits; Focus on the Labor Market Using Monthly Data Financial Market Volatility: Assessing RiskSummary; Chapter 5: Characterizing a Relationship between Time Series; Important Test Statistics in Identifying Statistically Significant Relationships; Level of Significance and p-value; The t-Value or t-Test; The F-Test; R2 and Adjusted R2; White Noise/Autocorrelation Detection Tests; Model Selection Criteria: The AIC and SIC; Simple Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Advanced Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Cointegration Analysis The Error Correction Model |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464919103321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Emerging market business cycles [[electronic resource] ] : the role of labor market frictions / / Emine Boz, C. Bora Durdu, and Nan Li
| Emerging market business cycles [[electronic resource] ] : the role of labor market frictions / / Emine Boz, C. Bora Durdu, and Nan Li |
| Autore | Boz Emine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (52 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Bora DurduC
LiNan |
| Collana | IMF working paper |
| Soggetto topico |
Business cycles
Business forecasting |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4755-1251-1
1-4755-1249-X 1-283-86663-3 1-4755-7277-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Empirical Evidence on Emerging Economy Labor Markets; 3 A Small Open Economy Model with Search-Matching Frictions; 4 Quantitative Analysis; 4.1 Calibration; 4.2 Solution: Nonlinear Methods; 4.3 The Model Dynamics; 4.4 Main Findings; Canonical SOE-RBC; Search-Matching Model; 4.5 Sensitivity Analysis; 5 Matching efficiency shocks; 6 Conclusion; References; References; Appendixes; A: Data Appendix; B: TFP computation; C: Decentralized Economy; D: Canonical SOE-RBC; Tables; Table 1: Real earnings; Table 2: Unemployment Rate and Employment
Table 3: Hours worked: Manufacturing and AggregateTable 4: Calibrated Parameters; Table 5: Business Cycle Moments; Table 6: Sensitivity Analysis; Table 7: Matching Efficiency Shocks; Figures; Figure 2: Limiting Distributions of Endogenous State Variables; Figure 3: Impulse Response Functions: Main Macroeconomic Variables; Figure 4: Impulse Response Functions: Labor Market Variables; Figure 1: Sectoral Decomposition of Employment |
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Boz Emine
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| Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Emerging Market Business Cycles : : The Role of Labor Market Frictions / / Emine Boz, Ceyhun Bora Durdu, Nan Li
| Emerging Market Business Cycles : : The Role of Labor Market Frictions / / Emine Boz, Ceyhun Bora Durdu, Nan Li |
| Autore | Boz Emine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (52 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DurduCeyhun Bora
LiNan |
| Collana |
IMF Working Papers
IMF working paper |
| Soggetto topico |
Business cycles
Business forecasting Labor Macroeconomics Production and Operations Management Open Economy Macroeconomics Economic Growth of Open Economies Employment Unemployment Wages Intergenerational Income Distribution Aggregate Human Capital Aggregate Labor Productivity Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy Demand and Supply of Labor: General Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search Macroeconomics: Consumption Saving Wealth Production Cost Capital and Total Factor Productivity Capacity Labour income economics Labor markets Consumption Total factor productivity National accounts Labor market Economics Industrial productivity |
| ISBN |
1-4755-1251-1
1-4755-1249-X 1-283-86663-3 1-4755-7277-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Empirical Evidence on Emerging Economy Labor Markets; 3 A Small Open Economy Model with Search-Matching Frictions; 4 Quantitative Analysis; 4.1 Calibration; 4.2 Solution: Nonlinear Methods; 4.3 The Model Dynamics; 4.4 Main Findings; Canonical SOE-RBC; Search-Matching Model; 4.5 Sensitivity Analysis; 5 Matching efficiency shocks; 6 Conclusion; References; References; Appendixes; A: Data Appendix; B: TFP computation; C: Decentralized Economy; D: Canonical SOE-RBC; Tables; Table 1: Real earnings; Table 2: Unemployment Rate and Employment
Table 3: Hours worked: Manufacturing and AggregateTable 4: Calibrated Parameters; Table 5: Business Cycle Moments; Table 6: Sensitivity Analysis; Table 7: Matching Efficiency Shocks; Figures; Figure 2: Limiting Distributions of Endogenous State Variables; Figure 3: Impulse Response Functions: Main Macroeconomic Variables; Figure 4: Impulse Response Functions: Labor Market Variables; Figure 1: Sectoral Decomposition of Employment |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779329603321 |
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Boz Emine
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| Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Emerging Market Business Cycles : : The Role of Labor Market Frictions / / Emine Boz, Ceyhun Bora Durdu, Nan Li
| Emerging Market Business Cycles : : The Role of Labor Market Frictions / / Emine Boz, Ceyhun Bora Durdu, Nan Li |
| Autore | Boz Emine |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (52 p.) |
| Disciplina | 332.1;332.152 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DurduCeyhun Bora
LiNan |
| Collana |
IMF Working Papers
IMF working paper |
| Soggetto topico |
Business cycles
Business forecasting Labor Macroeconomics Production and Operations Management Open Economy Macroeconomics Economic Growth of Open Economies Employment Unemployment Wages Intergenerational Income Distribution Aggregate Human Capital Aggregate Labor Productivity Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy Demand and Supply of Labor: General Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search Macroeconomics: Consumption Saving Wealth Production Cost Capital and Total Factor Productivity Capacity Labour income economics Labor markets Consumption Total factor productivity National accounts Labor market Economics Industrial productivity |
| ISBN |
1-4755-1251-1
1-4755-1249-X 1-283-86663-3 1-4755-7277-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Empirical Evidence on Emerging Economy Labor Markets; 3 A Small Open Economy Model with Search-Matching Frictions; 4 Quantitative Analysis; 4.1 Calibration; 4.2 Solution: Nonlinear Methods; 4.3 The Model Dynamics; 4.4 Main Findings; Canonical SOE-RBC; Search-Matching Model; 4.5 Sensitivity Analysis; 5 Matching efficiency shocks; 6 Conclusion; References; References; Appendixes; A: Data Appendix; B: TFP computation; C: Decentralized Economy; D: Canonical SOE-RBC; Tables; Table 1: Real earnings; Table 2: Unemployment Rate and Employment
Table 3: Hours worked: Manufacturing and AggregateTable 4: Calibrated Parameters; Table 5: Business Cycle Moments; Table 6: Sensitivity Analysis; Table 7: Matching Efficiency Shocks; Figures; Figure 2: Limiting Distributions of Endogenous State Variables; Figure 3: Impulse Response Functions: Main Macroeconomic Variables; Figure 4: Impulse Response Functions: Labor Market Variables; Figure 1: Sectoral Decomposition of Employment |
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Boz Emine
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| Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The financial times essential guide to budgeting and forecasting : how to deliver accurate numbers / / Nigel Wyatt
| The financial times essential guide to budgeting and forecasting : how to deliver accurate numbers / / Nigel Wyatt |
| Autore | Wyatt Nigel |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 192 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.155 |
| Collana |
Always learning
The FT guides |
| Soggetto topico |
Budget in business
Business forecasting Business planning |
| ISBN |
1-283-68401-2
0-273-76816-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents About the author Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Preparing your budgets 1 What is the budget for? Introduction The role of budgets why do we have them? 1 Meeting the organisation s objectives 2 Planning 3 Monitoring and controlling 4 Co-ordinating 5 Evaluating performance 6 Improving performance 7 Motivating managers 8 Management contract 9 Communicating 10 Providing a basis for authorising expenditure and delegating responsibility 11 Identifying scarce resources 12 Allocating resources 13 Demonstrating and delivering good corporate governance Linking budgets to strategy and policy Budgets for special purposes Planning periods 2 What is a forecast and how does it differ from a budget? What is the difference between a budget and a forecast? Benefits of forecasting beyond the wall Forecasts, projects and contracts Forecasting tools and techniques Sales forecasting Quantitative forecasting using Microsoft Excel Useful Excel tools Forecast frequency and automation Measuring and improving forecast accuracy Forecast financial statements New product sales forecasting Other factors to consider in sales forecasts 3 Essential background financial skills for budgeting Cheaper is not always better: cost and value in budgeting Accruals, cash and commitment accounting and budgeting Understanding profit and loss account figures Review of accruals accounting Direct and indirect methods of producing cash flow accounting The balance sheet The master budget Costs Value analysis and value engineering Activity based costing (ABC) The breakeven model Cost structure Capital expenditure planning 4 How should the budget be built? Introduction Building budgets Incremental budgeting Zero based budgeting Activity based budgeting Should budgets be top-down or bottom-up? Fixed v flexible budgets External comparison driven budgets VFM, outcome orientated and evidence based budgets The power of evidence in protecting budgets Good budgeting practice and ideas for constructing a budget Setting budgets for contingencies The challenge process Building budgets and performance measurement The budget game Presenting budgets 5 How should cash be budgeted and controlled? Planning systems and cash flow forecasting Managing working capital cash and risk Managing trade debtors (accounts receivable) Managing stock (inventory) Managing trade creditors (accounts payable) Cash flow in a business 6 How should capital expenditure be budgeted for? What is capital expenditure? The payback rule NPV and DCF Capital rationing: profitability index Strategic fit and roadmaps Sensitivity analysis Risk Post-investment appraisal Long-term cash flow planning Asset replacement and enhancement Investment in working capital Part 2 Managing your budget and delivering performance 7 Back to basics: living within your means and delivering VFM Budget feedback mechanism Ratios and budgets Managing budgets The VFM model for managing and planning budgets 8 Making sense of standard costing and variances Making sense of variances Standard costing Breakdown of variances Practical variance analysis without standard costing 9 Risks, forecasts, balanced scorecards and KPIs The balanced scorecard and strategy maps KPIs and budgets Values, mission and vision statements and budgets Risks and budgets 10 Delegating budgets to others Why delegate? Devolved or delegated budgets McGregor s theory X and theory Y The key to successful delegation 11 Beyond budgeting Introduction Are budgets bad for business? Implementing beyond budgeting Achieving objectives obliquely obliquity Conclusion Part 3 Reviewing your budgeting and forecasting performance 12 What lessons have you learned? Take action and responsibility Personal action plans Templates to review your learning and construct an action plan Beyond action plans: how do you know you have been successful? Index |
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| Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2012] | ||
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Forecasting fundamentals / / Nada R. Sanders
| Forecasting fundamentals / / Nada R. Sanders |
| Autore | Sanders Nada R. |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (126 pages) |
| Disciplina | 658.40355 |
| Collana | Supply and operations management collection |
| Soggetto topico | Business forecasting |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
causal methods
collaborative forecasting forecasting forecast accuracy measures forecasting analysis forecasting in business forecasting methods forecasting process forecasting technology judgmental forecasting time-series forecasting |
| ISBN | 1-60649-871-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Section I. Forecasting basics -- 1. Forecasting in business -- 2. The forecasting process -- Section II. Measuring forecast accuracy -- 3. Forecast accuracy measures -- Section III. Basics of forecasting methods -- 4. Categories of forecasting methods -- 5. Judgmental forecasting models -- 6. Statistical forecasting models -- Section IV. Forecasting in the business environment -- 7. Technology in forecasting -- 8. Managing the forecasting process -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Sanders Nada R.
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| New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2017 | ||
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Forecasting fundamentals / / Nada R. Sanders
| Forecasting fundamentals / / Nada R. Sanders |
| Autore | Sanders Nada R. |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (126 pages) |
| Disciplina | 658.40355 |
| Collana | Supply and operations management collection |
| Soggetto topico | Business forecasting |
| Soggetto non controllato |
causal methods
collaborative forecasting forecasting forecast accuracy measures forecasting analysis forecasting in business forecasting methods forecasting process forecasting technology judgmental forecasting time-series forecasting |
| ISBN | 1-60649-871-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Section I. Forecasting basics -- 1. Forecasting in business -- 2. The forecasting process -- Section II. Measuring forecast accuracy -- 3. Forecast accuracy measures -- Section III. Basics of forecasting methods -- 4. Categories of forecasting methods -- 5. Judgmental forecasting models -- 6. Statistical forecasting models -- Section IV. Forecasting in the business environment -- 7. Technology in forecasting -- 8. Managing the forecasting process -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798933503321 |
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| New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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