-- Revenue and receipts cycle -- Purchase and payments cycle -- Inventory and production cycle -- Human

. Economic growth -- 4. Business cycles -- 5. Employment and unemployment -- 6. Inflation -- 7. International

-- Revenue and receipts cycle -- Purchases and payments cycle -- Inventory and production cycle -- Human

growth -- Business cycles -- Employment and unemployment -- Inflation -- International transactions

time series or index -- Business cycles -- Consumer price index (CPI) -- Cyclical variation of a time