this is my assumption and the pro forma income statement I made.

This plug figure is in effect the ?financing? need of the company. A growing ?plug figure? means that the company will need more and more ?external financing? such as debt, paid-in-capital, or cash from a rich uncle. A declining ?plug figure? means that the company generates cash and has to put the cash to good use.

What is your plug figure? How does it change over time?

What are the external financing needs of Talat-Nabil? What assumptions are critical to your model of the company?s future performance? If you changed various assumptions, how would that impact the outcome of your model?

How clean and neat of a normalized spreadsheet can you create to run your scenario analyses? Who will win the ?easiest to read? contest?