In an article in U.S. News & World Report, Dan McGraw described how two computer giants, DELL and COMPAQ, were poised to do battle in the personal computer market. Compaq had 13.2% of the U.S. market share for personal computers to Dell’s 8.8%. However, Dell’s market share had more than doubled in the last four years while Compaq’s share had increased less than 1%. What type of information, accounting or otherwise, do you think the management of Compaq may have wanted and needed as they competed with Dell and the other PC companies?