Measures That Predict How Much Customers and Businesses Will Spend

question 12

Multiple Choice

Measures that predict how much customers and businesses will spend help forecast sales by:

• A)forecasting how much total will be spent in different categories,so companies can calculate what percentage of that spending they can capture
• B)giving a historical picture of how much those customers and businesses have spent with the company
• C)providing points of comparison between business and retail customers that allow companies to predict sales from one based on sales from the other
• D)basing predictions on figures that move as soon as market forces move
• E)predicting whether the economy will get stronger or weaker in general

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