Consulting income at Kate Walsh Associates for the period of Feburary-July has been as follows:
(income in 1000's)
Feb. 70.0
Mar. 68.5
Apr. 64.8
May 71.7
Jun. 71.3
Jul. 72.8
Use exponential smoothing to forcast Aug. income. Assume that the initial forecast for Feb. is $65,000. The smoothing constant selected is x=0.1