Appeal No. 1998-3379
Application No. 08/724,088
specification, Appellants disclose that a company's bank
account is incremented or decremented at the end of each
accounting period. The amount of increment or decrement is
referred to as the cash flow. Appellants disclose on page 4
of the specification that in the cash flow analysis, the
interest rate and the cash flow in each accounting period
constitutes the independent variables. Once these variables
are specified, the bank balance at the end of each accounting
period, the dependent variables, may be calculated and
displayed.
On page 2 of the specification, Appellants disclose that
Figure 1 is an example of a graphical display generated by the
method of their invention. On page 3 of the specification,
Appellants disclose that each accounting period is
characterized by a bank balance which is shown in the form of
a bar graph, element 104. Appellants disclose that the value
above each of the bar graphs shown in Figure 1 is displayed in
boxes above the bar graph, element 103. Appellants disclose
that the cash flow variable may be entered by pulling down the
arrows per each accounting period, element 105. The value of
the cash flow is displayed in the lower boxes shown in Figure
2
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