*PCOMMON: the percentage of the total that consists of common equity provided by the buyout group
*PCASH: the percentage of the total that comes from the use of the target firm's existing cash and marketable securities balances
*CF = INC-TAX-INTEXP-PFDDIV-COMDIV
*CF/EQUITY
*Lagged SALESGR
*TAX/EQUITY
*FOOTSTEPS (=1 if competing bid or takeover speculation in WSJ)
==Innovation==