A Sales Forecast Is

question 87

Multiple Choice

A sales forecast is

• A) the total sales of a product that a firm expects to sell during a specified time period under specified environmental conditions and its own marketing efforts.
• B) sales goals based on past performances of individual sales representatives, used as motivation for productivity among this staff.
• C) the total sales from a product that could be generated with a hypothetical set of preferred environmental forces.
• D) the total industry sales generated by a product during a specified time period that results from specified environmental conditions.
• E) published information about competitors' sales from the NAICS.

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