Upcoming Seminar: Budget Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook

Our second brown bag seminar of the year is entitled “Budget Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook.” This Brown Bag distills twenty-plus years of forecasting experience into practical steps for building and evaluating forecasts for the financial planning horizon. The presentation will include how to:

• Evaluate historical usage trends and setting the stage for the near-term sales forecast;
• Find the right economic drivers, and integrating efficiency trends with economic forecasts;
• Develop strong monthly weather variables;
• Evaluate model performance and addressing sales data issues; and,
• Generate booked sales forecasts for financial planning.

Join us on Tuesday, May 22—to register for this Brown Bag and other forecasting events, go to http://www.itron.com/forecastingworkshops.

Participation is free, but prior registration is required. Each seminar lasts approximately one hour, allowing 45 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes for questions. Seminars start at noon Pacific-time. If you can’t attend a seminar or if you missed one, don’t worry! Your registration ensures that a link to the recording will be sent to you automatically approximately one week after the seminar date.