Increasing the number of periods in a moving average will accomplish greater smoothing, but at the expense of

A) manager understanding.
B) accuracy.
C) stability.
D) responsiveness to changes.
E) reliability.

Responsiveness

Refers to the ability of a business or system to quickly react to changes or demands in the environment.

Greater Smoothing

A technique used in data analysis and time series forecasting to reduce volatility or noise in data points.

Moving Average

A technique in statistics that involves calculating averages from various subsets within the whole data set for analysis purposes.