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UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2018 08 29

This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for QSR, SMTC, and ATHN.
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Athenahealth Inc.

Athenahealth partners with hospital and ambulatory clients to drive clinical and financial results. The company provides network-enabled medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health services, as well as Epocrates

Restaurant Brands International Inc

Restaurant Brands International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged as a quick service restaurant (QSR) company with over 20,000 restaurants in approximately 100 countries and U.S. territories as of Dec 31 2016. Co.'s Tim Hortons® and Burger King® brands have similar franchise business models with complementary daypart mixes. Tim Hortons restaurants are QSRs with a menu that includes coffee, tea, espresso-based hot and cold drinks, baked goods, including donuts, Timbits®, bagels, sandwiches, soups and more. Burger King restaurants are QSRs that feature flame-grilled hamburgers, chicken and other sandwiches, french fries, soft drinks and other food items.

Semtech Corporation

Semtech is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company operates in one reportable segment through three product lines: signal integrity, which includes optical data communications and video transport products used in a variety of enterprise computing, communications, and industrial applications; protection, which are referred to as transient voltage suppressors that provides protection for electronic systems where voltage spikes; and wireless and sensing, which includes LoRa? devices and wireless radio frequency technology, and smart proximity sensing and user interface solutions for its mobile and consumer products.

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  • GAAP and IFRS have failed to provide rules for reliable financial statement reporting
  • Stock analyst recommendations are not grounded in disciplined financial analysis
  • Credit agencies have been set up to grossly fail in their responsibilities to investors and the public markets
  • Utter lack of willingness of major research firms to employ the the most advanced forensic analysis available

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Many years later, our business model remains because little has changed on Wall Street.

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  • Stock analysts continue to make recommendations with deeply inherent biases
  • Research firms have failed to break down the walls between credit, equity, and macroeconomic research
  • The governing accounting bodies have created more leeway for mis-estimates and mis-classifications as financials have become unwieldy and overwhelming

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