Subject: File No. S7-05-00 SEC proposal - ***DEADLINE APRIL 3rd***
Date:    04/03/2000 7:18 PM
     
     
Dear SEC,
     
I strongly object to the proposed elimination of the Financial Data Schedule 
(FDS). The FDS contains the only consistent and comparable data found in the 
10-K and 10-Q filings.
     
Spredgar Software's SPREDGAR add-in for Microsoft Excel uses the FDS section 
to generate over 30 standard financial ratios, as well as quarter-by-quarter 
free cash flow. Literally thousands of financial analysts, students, 
professors, CPAs, corporations, and individual investors have used SPREDGAR 
to assist them in their equity analysis.
     
The revocation of the FDS will make the analysis of equities more tedious 
and cumbersome to the individual investor.  This, in effect, reduces the 
transparency of the market --something I strongly oppose.
     
     
Should you have any questions, comments, or concerns (or would like 
additional comments) please feel free to contact at anytime via email, 
telephone, or fax.
     
Best regards,
Michael Bozanic, MBA
     
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Michael Bozanic, MBA
Nyenrode University - The Netherlands Business School 
Assistant Professor of Finance
     
     
MBA-FSI Scientific Collaborator (Module 3) 
http://www.nyenrode.nl/int/programs/mba/mba-fsi
     
     
     
EQUIS Accreditation Team (Nyenrode Project Manager) 
http://www.efmd.be/html/equis.html
Tel: +31-(0)346-291-231
Fax:+44-(0)171-681-1395
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