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Author: Pride, William M
Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
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Chapter 6, Problem 15DRQ
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To discuss: The two primary surveys that are used by the company for sales forecast and the reason for the company using an outside expert for forecasting surveys.
The systematic process of trying to forecast the volume of sales that a business is expected to make at a particular period in the future is known as sales forecasting.
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