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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (54443)	10/18/2003 3:55:32 PM
From: hueyone	Respond to of 54805

Imo, the Yahoo/Multex link is excellent for quick and dirty anlaysis, but it fails to provide many of the details regarding what the adjustments to reconcile net income to cash flow from operations are. Those details are important if you have an interest in analyzing the quality of reported cash flow from operations numbers. Compare your link to this link below, for example, which is scanned directly from the company reports filed with the SEC: edgarscan.pwcglobal.com The Yahoo/Multex link is also a little slow. It doesn't have the annual cash flow statement ending April, 2003 on the site yet. Even so, I use that site quite a bit myself, and believe it is pretty much the same as the Multex site that Yahoo has always been linked to. I also like the link to the income statements that gives GAAP earnings rather than proforma earnings. Imo, that link will become especially telling once GAAP is corrected to include stock option expense.<g> JMO, Huey

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (54443)	10/18/2003 4:31:30 PM
From: Immi	Respond to of 54805

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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (54443)	10/21/2003 6:19:50 PM
From: Pirah Naman	Respond to of 54805

uf: I think it has merit. I agree with Huey that it shouldn't be taken as the final word, but that isn't it's purpose. With any such simple feature you can identify the obvious bad. What I mean is this: if using such a feature you find that you have 10 companies that look "bad" from a perspective of generating FCF, probably at least 9 of them are legitimately bad in this respect, and the 10th one might be a pain to figure out. As a first screen, it can be very handy. Just be careful to select the "annual" option as the quarterly results fluctuate too much. - Pirah