Understanding Business 10th Edition by William Nickels,James McHugh,Susan McHugh

Exercise 3

Imagine that your boss asked you to help her to prepare the company's sales forecast for the coming two years. In the past, she felt that trends in the nation's GDP, U.S. manufacturing, and manufacturing in Illinois were especially helpful in forecasting sales. She would like you to do the following:
Go to the Bureau of Economic Analysis's website ( www.bea.gov ) and locate the gross domestic product data. Compare the annual figure for the last four years. What do the figures indicate for the next couple of years