Upcoming Seminar: Budget Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook
May 10, 2018
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Our second brown bag seminar of the year is entitled “Budget Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook.” This Brown Bag distills twenty-plus years of forecasting experience into practical steps for building and evaluating forecasts for the financial planning horizon. The presentation will include how to:
Evaluate historical usage trends and setting the stage for the near-term sales forecast;
Find the right economic drivers, and integrating efficiency trends with economic forecasts;
Develop strong monthly weather variables;
Evaluate model performance and addressing sales data issues; and,
Generate booked sales forecasts for financial planning.
Participation is free, but prior registration is required. Each seminar lasts approximately one hour, allowing 45 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes for questions. Seminars start at noon Pacific-time. If you can’t attend a seminar or if you missed one, don’t worry! Your registration ensures that a link to the recording will be sent to you automatically approximately one week after the seminar date.
Paige Schaefer is a Product Marketing Manager in Itron’s Outcomes group for the strategy, planning and implementation of projects supporting marketing functions spanning electricity, water and gas business units. She interacts directly with sales, product and corporate marketing to identify new marketing opportunities, recommend actions and the coordination of targeted campaigns to increase brand awareness and market share where she works closely with the teams to develop content and strategies. In addition, she provides website support, event coordination and manages Itron’s Energy Forecasting Group (EFG), which supports end-use data development, the Statistical End-use Approach (SAE) and coordinates their annual meeting for discussing modeling and forecasting issues. Paige has a B.S. in Business Administration from San Diego State University with an emphasis in Marketing.
