Business Decision Making: Trend Analysis for Strategic Insights

This presentation focuses on business decision-making, specifically using trend analysis and scatter diagrams. It examines training expenditures and student grades, revealing an increasing trend in expenditures but a constant trend in student grades. The analysis, supported by references to relevant research, suggests that the college's current trend will likely continue. The presentation uses visual aids like trend graphs and scatter diagrams to illustrate the data, highlighting their utility in understanding business trends and making informed decisions. Desklib provides access to this and many other solved assignments for students.

Business decision making
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 As per the trend analysis using trend graph and scatter diagram, it is
visible that training expenditures of Ann's college in the five months is
showing an increasing trend but improvement in the grades of student
is showing a constant trend.
 Scatter diagram shows data in the dots form while trend graph shows
data in line form (Pede, V.O. and et.al., 2011).
 On the analysis of the above both graphs it can be concluded that,
trend of Ann's college will remain same in the near future.

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Pede, V.O. and et.al., 2011. Determinants of Household Income: A Quantile
Regression Approach for Four Rice-Producing Areas in the Philippines. Asian
Journal of Agriculture and Development. 9(2). p.1.
Pettigrew, A.M., 2014. The politics of organizational decision-making.
Routledge.
Power, D.J., Sharda, R. and Burstein, F., 2015. Decision support systems. John
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