Description:

The Interactive Analysis Tool presents the historical financial data in the interactive environment, allowing users to undertake their own analysis of trends. The data can be reviewed, compared and analysed in tabular or graphic formats or both at the same time.

All the graphs and data selections are downloadable in several formats.

System requirements

Interactive data can be manipulated from a standard Web browser – Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or Netscape 6.2 or higher are required.

The Interactive Analysis Tool is driven by a Java applet. At least a version 1.4 of Sun's Java plug-in is needed.

Some browsers or firewalls in company networks disable java programs and prevent the use of this feature.

Sometimes on the computers running Microsoft XP, there is no Sun's Java plug-in installed by default. This also applies to computers running older operating systems.

To download and install latest version of Sun's Java plug-in go to www.java.com.

Exploring data

The box below the chart contains all of the data items available for exploring. Some data items can be plotted on a chart just by clicking on them, some data items may be headers for subgroups of data items below.  Headers for subgroups can be expanded or closed by clicking on the (+/-) sign next to the heading.

Plotting data

To display a data item, click the mouse on that data item in the Box. Plotting a data item in this fashion replaces all other data items on the chart with the one you clicked.

Plot multiple data items on the chart simultaneously by holding down the CTRL key and clicking individually on each desired data item in the Box.

Remove a data item from the chart, but leave others plotted, by holding down the CTRL key and clicking in the Box on the data item to be removed.

Views

From the View menu the data can be viewed as chart, table or both at the same time. You can transpose the rows and columns and reverse the column order from the Change Order sub-menu.

Changing chart type

Click in the Chart Type menu above the chart display to select from among different chart types. Chart types available are Line, Area, Pie and various Bar charts.

Adjusting axes scale

Change the scale of your chart's X and Y axes by holding down your mouse on the notches at the end of the axes and sliding the mouse left or right for the X axis and up or down for the Y axis. Changing the axis scale can be useful when you want to zoom in on a section of your chart.

Reports

Click the 'Reports' menu to display the list of reports available. Reports are pre-selected groups of data items made available to view.

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