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HIGHLINE FINANCIAL SERVICES, LTD.
Highline Financial Services provide; three categories of service to its clients. Managing partner Freddie Mack is getting ready to prepare financial and personnel hiring (or layoff) plans for the coming year. He is a bit perplexed by the following printout he obtained, which seems to the three categories of services ever the past eight quarters:
Examine the demand that this company has experienced for the three categories of services it offers over the preceding two years. Assuming nothing changes in terms of advertising or promotion, and competition doesn’t change, predict demand for the services the company offers for the next four quarters. Note that there are not enough data to develop seasonal relatives Nonetheless, you should be able to make reasonably good, approximate intuitive estimates of demand. What general observations can you make regarding demand? Should Freddie have any concerns? Explain.
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