It is an area where we are aiming to provide the sought-after guidance. But we are not writing a procedures manual for orderhandling. Rather we are articulating principles that need to be taken into account. Individual firms may then take these principles and reflect them in their own procedures manual.
Price developments may deviate from the forecasts due to deviations of economic activity from the projected path, and also to factors unique to prices, for example, emergence of inflationary sentiment or the effects of various measures to promote competition such as deregulation.