Suppose that you are using the four-period simple moving average method to forecast sales, and sales have been increasing by 20% every period. How will your forecasts perform?
a) Forecasts will be lower than actual.
b) Forecasts will be higher than actual.
c) Forecasts will equal actual.
d) Forecasts will be decreasing.
e) Forecasts will be increasing by 5.0% every period.
Answer: a) Forecasts will be lower than actual.