1.   Only nine middle schools fell into the specified reporting period.

2.   The same accounting methods are applied over a series of reporting periods so that trends can be identified and comparisons made.

3.   As the dollar fell against the franc over the reporting period, Axa received fewer francs per dollar contributed by U.S. businesses.

4.   Bush is the first presidential candidate to release the names of his donors prior to the next federally mandated reporting period, which is in October.

5.   Direct comparisons to the year earlier will be difficult, since the company last year both bought Wellcome and changed its reporting period to end in December.

6.   For the fifth consecutive reporting period, however, Salomon posted a loss in its client-related businesses, such as stock and bond underwriting.

7.   He also believes the next reporting period will show that Magellan has ventured into health care stocks.

8.   HSBC said a company must have a track record of three reporting periods before it can move from the Parallel market to the Regular market.

9.   Jordan had one fund-raiser in this reporting period.

10.   Mitch Zacks, director of research at Zacks Investment Research, a firm that tracks earnings estimates, talked last week about the coming reporting period.