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• Is profit per employee growing at the same rate as
revenue per employee? If not, then why not?
• How does our economic value added (EVA) look
compared with that of competitors in our line of busi-
ness?
It should be clear that if you have the answers to these ques-
tions, you can do an effective job of forecasting.
Data Sou rc es
Your efforts at prediction are strongly supported by the
availability of public data. North American businesses are
blessed with a plethora of data. In both the United States
and Canada, the governments support extensive databases
of population, economic, and business information. A few
of the U.S. federal government sources include:
Congressional Budget Office
Department ...