UNSW SYDNEY 
ECON2209: Business Forecasting 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2026 
 
- Part 01. About This Guide 
- Part 02. Sample Final Examination Paper 
- Part 03. Suggested Solutions to Final Exam Paper 
- Part 04. Final Examination - Hints and Tips 
 
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ECON2209 - Business Forecasting (UNSW Sydney)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026

University	UNSW Sydney
Study Level	Undergraduate
Course Code	ECON2209
Course Name	Business Forecasting
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Page Length	30

This comprehensive exam guide helps you familiarise yourself with the content and format of the final exam for ECON2209: Business Forecasting at UNSW Sydney. It covers all examinable content, explains how the exam is structured, and highlights the topics to prioritise. You can practise with exam-style papers, full solutions, step-by-step explanations, and practical hints and tips, all arranged in a clear, logical order to support fast revision under time pressure.

Course Description:

In an uncertain and data-rich business environment, making accurate predictions is both essential and challenging.

This course addresses how to transform data into reliable forecasts that support effective decision-making and strategic planning. It covers the practical use of econometric and statistical techniques applied in the business world. Building and evaluating forecasting models using time series data will be the focus of this course.

By the end of the course, students will be able to formulate and use reliable forecasting models based on sound economic principles.

Course Aims:

This course aims to provide a foundation in business forecasting analysis based on econometric methods. Reliable forecasts are an essential input to the formulation of business and policy decisions.

Relationship to Other Courses:

Prerequisites: ECON1203 or COMM1110 or MATH1041 or MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251. It is highly recommended that students who complete COMM1110 also complete COMM1190 before enrolling in this course. 

This course is offered as part of the economics/econometrics stream in the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce degrees.

Additionally, this course is a prerequisite of ECON3206 Financial Econometrics.

COURSE CODE	COURSE NAME
ACCT2511	Financial Accounting Fundamentals
ACCT2522	Management Accounting for Decision Analysis
ACCT2542	Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis
ACTL1101	Introduction to Actuarial Studies
ECON1102	Macroeconomics 1
ECON2101	Microeconomics 2
ECON2206	Introductory Econometrics
ECON2209	Business Forecasting
ECON3208	Applied Econometric Methods
FINS1613	Business Finance
FINS2618	Capital Markets and Institutions
FINS2624	Portfolio Management
FINS3625	Applied Corporate Finance
FINS3635	Options, Futures and Risk Management
FINS3636	Interest Rate Risk Management
FINS5511	Corporate Finance
FINS5535	Derivatives and Risk Management Techniques
MARK2012	Marketing Fundamentals
MATH1041	Statistics for Life and Social Sciences
MGMT2004	Managing Organisational Behaviour
TABL2710	Business and the Law
TABL2751	Business Taxation

ECON2209 - Business Forecasting (UNSW Sydney)

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