Seasonality

Economics - financial management - natural ecosystems.

1.

The degree to which activity levels and financial flows vary according to the time of year.

Organisations that are more seasonal are exposed to greater seasonal risks, which they need to manage appropriately.

2.

Relating to activities that usually happen only at particular times of the year.

For example, in natural ecosystems, migration means the seasonal movement of wildlife from one region to another, generally related to their feeding and breeding cycles.

See also

• Boom and bust
• Business cycle
• Cash conversion cycle
• Countercyclical
• Cycle
• Cyclical
• Cyclical risk
• Economics
• Ecosystem
• Financial management
• Herd behaviour
• Life cycle
• Migration
• Operating cycle
• Order to cash cycle
• Procure to pay cycle
• Procyclical
• Procyclical risk
• Procyclicality
• Product life cycle
• Purchase to pay cycle
• Recession
• Recovery
• Seasonal
• Seasonal risk
• Short term
• Structural
• Trend
• Trend analysis