Forecasting Techniques in Business and Economics is an outgrowth of author's experience of teaching the subject of Quantitative Techniques to M.Phil. (Commerce) students for the last several years, and is an attempt to meet some of the problems which were part of that experience. The book is meant to cater to the needs of under-graduate and post-graduate students of Commerce, Economics, Management, Operations Research, Production Engineering and also the busy executives, managers and administrators, who look for ready solution of day-to-day problems of forecasting in their planning decisions. The most striking feature of the book is its versatility. In one handy volume, the author has condensed the subject matter to meet the requirement of vast crosssection of reading population. The contents of the book have been divided into four different parts. The book is unique in the sense that it has been written in a simple and lucid style. The text material is so self-explanatory that even the average student can easily follow it without much stress and strain. The treatment of the subject is nonmathematical and even difficult methods have been discussed logically and in a very simple manner. Besides useful theory, the book contains solved illustrations. It is hoped that the book will be found quite useful by its readers.