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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Prognostizierbarkeit

English translation:

predictability

Added to glossary by Kim Metzger
Apr 9, 2010 20:49
14 yrs ago
German term

Prognostizierbarkeit

German to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general)
Forecastibility - A measure of the degree to which something may be forecast with accuracy
Prognostibility? I got 7 Google hits for this term.

But how can an annual budget forecast anything in the first place?

13.1 Der Forecast ist ein vorwärts gerichtetes Steuerungsinstrument und soll als Richtschnur und Planungsinstrument dienen, um die Prognostizierbarkeit des Jahresbudgets festzulegen und den Auftragnehmer bei der Steuerung seiner Dienstleistung sowie den Einsatz der zur Erfüllung benötigten Ressourcen unterstützen.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +2 predictability
3 to project the annual budget
3 forecastability

Discussion

hazmatgerman (X) Apr 10, 2010:
May i just explain what forecast means in my company: working out on sales figues for the year so far whether the budgeted (=planned) turnover will be achieved. It is a Hochrechnung = extrapolation the result of which will be compared with the budget figures to show if results for the year promise to be within planned range or not.
J Fox Apr 10, 2010:
Perhaps they're just trying to say that they use 'der Forecast' to forecast (or establish) the annual budget??
Bernhard Sulzer Apr 10, 2010:
thoughts I can't get a good grip on the German sense. How could the forecast "determine/define" predictability (of budget numbers?) If you think "establish" then it sort of makes sense - the forecast is the required tool for making/being able to make predictions about future budget numbers. Managers work from the forecast to arrive at some tentative figures for the future budget.
That the tool does help calculate the budget is shown by your added context and also by this example:
http://www.vorlagen.de/lexikon/controlling/-qs-id-vc-4044-qc...
Kim Metzger (asker) Apr 9, 2010:
More context: Dieser Forecast stellt die Basis für die Ermittlung des Jahresbudgets dar.
philgoddard Apr 9, 2010:
I don't think it makes sense in the German - the forecast is not used to assess the Prognostizierbarkeit of the budget. I would say it's "used as a guideline and planning tool in setting the annual budget".
Kim Metzger (asker) Apr 9, 2010:
Sp forecastability

Proposed translations

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predictability

Der Satz ist grammatikalisch nicht korrekt und klingt wie eine Übersetzung aus dem Englischen.
Peer comment(s):
agree David Hollywood : me likie :) I think the meaning is to be able to get a fair idea of how things could work out ...
2 hrs
Danke, David
agree Rolf Keiser
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Danke, Goldcoaster
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Many thanks to all of you. "
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German term (edited): die Prognostizierbarkeit des Jahresbudgets festlegen

to project the annual budget

or 'to make a budget projection', perhaps?
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forecastability

forecastability (plural forecastabilities)

A measure of the degree to which something may be forecast with accuracy

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forecastability

Terrible sentence though.

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-04-09 22:23:58 GMT)
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They seem to have taken Prognostizierbarkeit from the German translation of their English term Der Forecast. Do they use der Forecast to determine the forecastability of the annual budget?

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-04-09 22:25:12 GMT)
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See also
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Forecastable


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Note added at 9 hrs (2010-04-10 06:21:49 GMT)
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Perhaps they're just trying to say that they use 'der Forecast' to forecast (or establish) the annual budget??
Reference:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forecastability

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