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Business operations is closely related to the status quo of the society. Once a business is in danger, it will cause the whole society a serious loss especially the listed stock company. Therefore, the samples of this study is concentrated on the manufacturing industry which has stocks traded in the Taiwan Stock Market. The study tried to explain:if CFFO information is helpful to the users of financial statements to make a correct judgment about investment and credit. The study collects financial data from 1989 to 1992. The statistics methods adopted in the study are Factor Analysis and Discriminant Analysis. The results of the study show that: (1) In univariate analysis, any of the three CFFO ratios is an effective forecasting indicators of performance. (2) In multivariate analysis, the forecasting ability of synthetic model is not better than traditional model. In conclusion, the CFFO ratios of the study don't have marginal forecasting effectiveness.
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