Sentence examples for questionable forecasts from inspiring English sources

The two accounting rules that Enron abused the most dealt with keeping subsidiaries off financial statements and using "mark-to-market" calculations to produce profits based on questionable forecasts.

The first questionable forecast or recommendation will see the OBR's impartiality being questioned by political opponents.

Question questionable sources.

Sunday's 9 a.m. restart looked highly questionable, with the forecast calling for a chance of lingering showers Sunday morning.

Mayrhuber reiterated his criticism on how the flight disruption was handled, shutting down wide swaths of Europe's air space based on what he said were forecasts of questionable reliability.

The results confirm the continued superiority of the weighted moving average, Holt and Croston method for intermittent demand, whereas most commonly used methods by airlines are found to be questionable, consistently producing poor forecasting performance.

If the forecasts are sometimes questionable, the relevance of Internet statistics to consumers is even more difficult to fathom.

But, the validity of the intraday forecast itself is questionable due to intermittent weather conditions.

The usefulness of consumer confidence gauges as a forecast for spending is questionable, but on Monday the Commerce Department did report another slight uptick in consumer spending of 0.3% in February, after a 0.4% January rise.

Finally, the prediction methods used to predict the decline in the future population of bears excluded key forecasting principles and included questionable assumptions.

In this article the parameters are estimated just once, and it is therefore questionable how strongly they vary over the forecasting period.