Question: Develop your own forecast for window fans for each month of the next year 2015. Justify your forecast and the method you used. Please explain

Develop your own forecast for window fans for each month of the next year 2015. Justify your forecast and the method you used.

Please explain to me how you got the numbers for 2015 and why used that method for forecasting (2015).

Thank you.

Actual Window Fan Demand and Forecast
Month Work Days 2011 2012 2013 2014
1 21 61,294 44,261 35,720 69,238
2 20 63,659 71,182 42,846 73,816
3 22 17,144 52,895 27,772 34,858
4 21 30,831 47,786 56,943 40,519
5 20 23,763 43,688 35,287 18,746
6 22 19,001 11,452 35,631 20,989
7 22 20,011 50,165 66,414 39,405
8 21 22,070 51,648 34,121 56,888
9 21 17,534 24,537 53,058 38,232
10 22 59,568 45,899 82,018 75,578
11 19 92,429 51,087 66,824 75,674
12 21 81,020 46,460 61,272 67,821
Totals 252 508,324 541,060 597,906 611,764
Monthly Avg. 42,360 45,088 49,826 50,980

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