COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUSINESS FORECASTING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EMT 4024 BUSINESS FORECASTING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Econometrics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SERKAN ARAS

Offered to

Econometrics
Econometrics

Course Objective

The main objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to forecasting methods and to present enough information about each method for students to be able to use them sensibly in the field of business forecasting applications.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to describe the importance of business forecasting.
2   To be able to employ judgemental forecasting techniques.
3   To be able to model the components of a time series.
4   To be able to use state space models.
5   To be able to perform various forecasting techniques with the help of R programming.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Forecasting, the Why and How.
2 Basic Tools for Forecasting.
3 Judgmental forecasts
4 The Delphi method, Scenario forecasting.
5 New product forecasting, Judgmental adjustments.
6 Time series components, X-12-ARIMA decomposition.
7 STL decomposition, Forecasting with decomposition.
8 Midterm exams
9 Midterm exams
10 A taxonomy of exponential smoothing methods
11 Innovations state space models for exponential smoothing
12 Stationarity and differencing, Non-seasonal ARIMA models, Seasonal ARIMA models
13 Advanced forecasting methods: Neural network models, Hierarchical or grouped time series
14 Combined forecasting methods, Using R

Recomended or Required Reading

Ord, K., & Fildes, R. (2013). Principles of business forecasting. Cengage Learning.
Armstrong, J. S. (Ed.). (2001). Principles of forecasting: a handbook for researchers and practitioners (Vol. 30). Springer Science & Business Media.
Hyndman, R. J., & Athanasopoulos, G. (2014). Forecasting: principles and practice. OTexts.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be presented using class lectures, class discussions, overhead projections, and demonstrations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.50 +MTE * 0.50
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

serkan.aras@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511

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