Two Catering Companies That Join to Form a New, Larger

question 44

Multiple Choice

Two catering companies that join to form a new, larger catering company are an example of a(n) ________.

• A) merger
• B) acquisition
• C) wholly owned direct investment
• D) greenfield investment

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Definitions:

Holt's Model

A forecasting technique that extends exponential smoothing to allow forecasting of data with a trend.

Trend Component

An underlying pattern in data that shows a persistent, general direction of movement over time.

Simple Exponential Smoothing

A time series forecasting method for univariate data that applies decreasing weights to past observations as they age.

Mean Absolute Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or variability in a data set, calculated as the average distance between each data point and the mean of the data set.