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To: Roger Folsom who wrote (14073)	4/28/2000 4:05:00 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Respond to of 14631

I don't know what F/X means, but DSO is a standard accounting term that is an acronym for Days Sales Outstanding (or something like that). Anyway, it's a measure of how effective the company is at actually getting paid for things that they have sold. If the DSO is going up for a company, it can mean that they are at greater risk of getting stiffed by customers. It apparently can mean a lot of other things (including "not much"), but my limited understanding is that it's considered a warning flag.

To: Roger Folsom who wrote (14073)	4/28/2000 6:14:00 AM
From: Northern Marlin	Respond to of 14631

F/X loss from strengthening $$ Foreign exchange loss from strengthening dollar.

To: Roger Folsom who wrote (14073)	4/28/2000 8:46:00 AM
From: Logain Ablar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14631

Hi Roger: DSO - Days Sales Outstanding. The receivables to sales. Indicates 89 days of sales to be collected. For a software company when this # is high it indicates the sales are back end loaded in the quarter. We would like to see a # south of 70. The CC did not address why this went up only that they expect it to come down. F/X is foreign exchange. The US dollar has been strengthening against the euro. A $1 sale in europe last year is only appx. 90 cents this year. Tim