"Quality" sheet.
Updated 11 Jan 2002

This document discusses how to use the "Quality" Sheet.

You can use Tab and Shift-Tab on the keyboard to move, respectively, 
forward and backward through highlighted cells where data can be 
entered.

Forecast growth rates for Sales and Earnings are entered in the 
highlighted cells to the right of the Growth chart (just above the 
two smaller charts).  If you don't enter values here you will see 
"#N/A" in many places on this and other sheets and there will be 
no growth projection lines on the Growth chart.

At the very bottom of the large chart, there is a row of check boxes 
for each year of data on the chart.  Checking one or more of these 
boxes causes the corresponding value(s) to be considered "outlier(s)" 
and to be omitted from the appropriate calculations.

On the Quality sheet, to the left of the large chart, are color coded 
up/down arrows corresponding (from top to bottom) to the Sales, PTP, 
Earnings, Shares, and "Other" data displayed on the chart.  Clicking 
on these arrows allows you to reposition the data on the chart.

The vertical scale on the charts will adjust automatically to 
accomodate the data being displayed.  Positioning the mouse pointer 
(without clicking) to any of the lines or points on the various charts 
will, after a short delay, display additional information about that 
item.

In the "Forecast Earnings" section there is a checkbox (highlighted in 
color) which allows you to use the forecast EPS value from either the 
"Business" or "Forecast Growth" projection model.  The "Business" model 
is the same idea as the SSG Preferred Procedure.  You can enter your 
own 5 year business model estimates in the highlighted cells.

-Jim Thomas
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSSW_Excel