Hi all, I am playing with some companies' balance sheets and income statements and want to apply what I've just learned from Stats class to see if I can forecast the companies earnings, sales and gross margin in the short term (3rd and 4th Quarter), mid-term (2009) and long term (2011, etc. )
I pulled up some data from companies' financial statements over the past a few years. The companies are techs so don't have long history. And given regime switching and big changes in the macro condition, I think long historical data have no use any way... so I have quarterly and annual data... and I probably need some other time series, for example the GDP, interest rate, consumer spending, etc. How do I forecast the performance of the firms using R? I don't have much experience yet, for example, I probably have to de-trend the timeseries first, and then do some seasonality adjustment, etc. but I think it's very fun. Are there good hands-on tutorials about how to do these things in R, with realistic examples? Thanks a lot! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.