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    1. He liked the idea of my participation in the negotiation because I was conversant with broadcast management terminology and was deeply involved in fashioning the pro forma operating budgets for the stations we sought


    2. He took it so easy because he knew before he left the States that the report was strictly pro forma: LBJ had made up his mind to send more troops


    3. In Adelaide, I went to the designated place a few days before Christmas, expecting a pro forma interview as I had done before in Townsville and New Zealand


    4. The rest of the interview would be pro forma bureaucratizes


    5. the pro format in an easy not-too-steep giant slalom---about the


    6. “This should accompany your pro forma letter of resignation to become effective at the pleasure of the President


    7. This should accompany your pro forma letter of resignation to become effective at the pleasure of the President


    8. ” But once again the doom and gloom was mostly pro forma


    9. Accordingly a servant was secretly dispatched express to the town on that errand; my lord and my lady insisting on the officers staying to spend the evening with them, which was an unusual civility at the pro forma dinners at the castle


    10. I counted eleven follow-up articles the week after New Year’s, and that was just off the pro forma you guys put out

    11. It is possible to generate a pro forma P&L, which assumes that the trader had risked a consistent percentage of account equity on each trade


    12. 4 shows this pro forma equity curve, assuming 1 percent fixed fractional risk, against the actual P&L


    13. The path of this pro forma P&L provides another, visual confirmation of what we have seen clearly in the %R analysis—the trader actually did have an edge, but did not apply it very well


    14. (2) Stated on a pro forma basis using a tax rate of 24


    15. Perhaps the most widespread bit of accounting hocus-pocus was the “pro forma” earnings fad


    16. There’s an old saying on Wall Street that every bad idea starts out as a good idea, and pro forma earnings presentation is no different


    17. A pro forma press release might, for instance, show what a company would have earned over the past year if another firm it just acquired had been part of the family for the entire 12 months


    18. presented its pro forma earnings as if it had not paid $4 million in payroll taxes, had not lost $7 million investing in lousy stocks, and had not incurred $2


    19. In short, pro forma earnings enable companies to show how well they might have done if they hadn’t done as badly as they did


    20. 2 As an intelligent investor, the only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them

    21. Typically the transaction results in a pro forma increase in the reported earnings per share of common stock; the shares advance in response to their larger earnings, so-called, but also because the management has given evidence of its energy, enterprise, and ability to make more money for the shareholders


    22. When we pass from this pro forma balance sheet to the next year’s report we find several strange-appearing entries


    23. This accounting treatment is reflected in both the consolidated income account and the consolidated balance sheet of NVF for 1969, and pro forma for 1968


    24. One is “pro forma” or “as if” financial statements, which report a company’s earnings as if Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) did not apply


    25. The inspection that followed was pro forma


    26. But Corporate America would not work at all unless many activities continued to be coercive; security holders may get a right to vote (which vote may be pro forma and meaningless), but the security holders are coerced into going along whether they like it or not once a requisite vote has taken place


    27. , was first noticed, it looked easier than the pie-in-the-sky stocks for the analysts who had troubled their pro formas with biotechs


    28. Both camps then retreated behind closed doors to pro forma cash flow on their computers


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