trends in retail

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Go to the Cengage (Links to an external site.) website and log into your account. Go to the student resources for Chapter 6 of your text. Download the data file Revenues.xlsx. Using the data for TGT (Target Corp) quarterly sales data, complete the following tasks:

  1. Create a line chart of sales. Is there a trend? Do you notice seasonality? If so, what is the frequency?
  2. Using the procedures you learned in the text, Chapter 6, decompose the time series into the trend, seasonality, and irregular components.
  3. Which of the time series methodologies discussed in the chapter would likely be the most appropriate for forecasting Target’s sales?

Submit your Excel workbook. Submit a 1-2-page paper summarizing your answers to questions 1-3, using references to support your conclusions.

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