Excel forecasting is a key skill for analysts, enabling precise predictions to guide strategic decisions. Key techniques include linear trend analysis, seasonality, and data visualization.

OTHER USES OF LINEAR REGRESSION While this article focuses on using linear regression tools in Excel for forecasting revenue, linear regression can also help model a variety of business situations.

Use historical data to forecast trends to use in sales, budgets, marketing and more. Excel provides accessible tools to create a graph and display the linear equation.

Learn how to use the powerful Excel TREND and FORECAST functions in your spreadsheets for more insight and analyze data more effectively ...

Excel 2016 provides a new tool called Forecast Sheet that automatically calculates and plots your upper and lower forecast boundaries based on your desired level of confidence.

Forecast in Excel is a useful feature that helps you create a forecast based on historical time-based series data analysis. It has some newly built capabilities.