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Once the seasonal influence is removed from this time series, the unemployment rate data can be meaningfully compared across different months and predictions for the future can be made. [3] When seasonal adjustment is not performed with monthly data, year-on-year changes are utilised in an attempt to avoid contamination with seasonality.
The seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) is a rate that is adjusted to take into account typical seasonal fluctuations in data and is expressed as an annual total. SAARs are used for data affected by seasonality, when it could be misleading to directly compare different times of the year. SAARs are often used for car sales.
CAGR can also be used to calculate mean annualized growth rates on quarterly or monthly values. The numerator of the exponent would be the value of 4 in the case of quarterly, and 12 in the case of monthly, with the denominator being the number of corresponding periods involved.
As companies report on a quarterly basis, if you receive a statement from July 1 to Sept. 30 this would indicate how the company performed financially in the third quarter.
Quarter-to-date (QTD) is a period starting at the beginning of the current quarter and ending at the current date.Quarter-to-date is used in many contexts, mainly for recording results of an activity in the time between a date (exclusive, since this day may not yet be “complete”) and the beginning of either the calendar or fiscal quarter.
Trailing twelve months (TTM) is a measurement of a company's financial performance (income and expenses) used in finance.It is measured by using the income statements from a company's reports (such as interim, quarterly or annual reports), to calculate the income for the twelve-month period immediately prior to the date of the report.
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Ravn and Uhlig (2002) state that should vary by the fourth power of the frequency observation ratio; thus, should equal 6.25 (1600/4^4) for annual data and 129,600 (1600*3^4) for monthly data; [5] in practice, = for yearly data and =, for monthly data are commonly used, however.