Alex S. Gould

The Chase Manhattan Bank NA operates a commercial banking. It provides financial products, services, and advice, planning and treasury management services. The company is located in New York, NY.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Criterion Research Group LLC is an independent research firm headquartered in New York City. They provide research based on their proprietary earnings quality accrual model and additional quantitative and qualitative screens developed by Criterion and Wharton accounting Professor Scott Richardson. Accruals are management's estimates of future cash flows and expenses that increase earnings and often turn out to be wrong due to error or management's prerogative to increase earnings. Criterion's accrual model quantifies the accrual component of the earnings of more than 5,000 public US companies (the CRG 5000) and sorts these companies into ten accrual categories within the CRG 5000 and the S&P 500. Companies in the 10th accrual decile have the highest accrual and lowest cash components to their earnings, and companies in the 1st accrual decile have the lowest accrual and highest cash components to their earnings