Critical Thinking Questions Case SF2-1 Your Supervisor, the Accounting Manager

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Critical Thinking Questions Case SF2-1 Your supervisor, the accounting manager, asks you to insert the current month's sales estimates by product located in an Excel worksheet into a sales report you are creating in Publisher that will be sent to each manager electronically. Which of the following integration methods should you use if each sales manager has access to the source workbook, has permission to change its contents, and are asked to update the source workbook with their latest estimates using the worksheet object in the sales report? ____

• A) copy and paste
• B) embedding
• C) linking
• D) attaching

Explain the advantages and limitations of exponential smoothing.

Calculate and interpret moving averages for specified periods given historical data.

Understand and identify the association between two quantitative variables.

Distinguish between exploratory analysis, benchmarking, and data mining.

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