Suppose that a company's annual sales were $1,200,000 in 1999. The annual growth rate of sales from 1999 to 2000 was 16 percent, from 2000 to 2001 it was −5 percent, and from 2001 to 2002 it was 22 percent.
The geometric mean growth rate of sales over this three-year period is calculated as 10.37 percent. Use the geometric mean growth rate and determine the forecasted sales for 2004.
year | sales | |
1999 | 1200000 | 0.16 |
2000 | 1392000 | -0.05 |
2001 | 1322400 | 0.22 |
2002 | 1613328 | |
let geometric mean growth rate = r
(1+r)^3 = 1.16 *0.95*1.22
hence
r = 0.1037
sales in 2002 = 1613328
hence forecast in 2004
= 1613328 (1+ r)^2
= 1613328 *1.1037^2
= 1965281
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