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Different Time Frames
1) Military spending may not be a good
indicator of military capability and it is not necessary easy to directly compare domestic spending between
different countries, especially when currency
values are volatile and relationships between state and private business are non-transparent.
The fundamental indexer asks a
different question, namely: «What common accounting (or other) variables, relatively standard across companies, are
indicators of the likely future
value of the firm?