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To: RetiredNow who wrote (54274)	8/4/2001 1:11:55 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

<< It may piss you off that they don't have crystal balls, but that's reality for you.>> forecasting is big part of the job, MM. << Also, closing the books fast tells you alot about past performance, but it doesn't tell you much about the future.>> it can, or should, identify order and sales trends as well as ageing of accounts receivable. Yet Chambers was gleeful and optimisic right up to the very edge of the precipice. Then he started making gloomy statements on his trips to Europe. Not many here in the states seemed to pay much attention when he made those statements <gg>