section in FORM 10-K and in the ANNUAL REPORT to stockholders that is required by SEC Accounting Series Release No. 159. Management must summarize the reasons for changes in results of operations, capital resources,and liquidity, among others. The section is designed to help investors understand the extent to which accounting changes, as well as changes in business activity, have affected the comparability of year-to-year data. Investors will then be in a better position to assess the source and probability of recurrence in earnings. Examples of subjects to be discussed by management include material changes in discretionary costs, material changes in assumptions underlying deferred costs, and significant changes in product mix or in the relative profitability of lines of business.