How can I determine in 3 minutes or less whether the finances of a company is improving /declining?

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MOnthly candles are the most fun to read;
but 200 month average on SPY requires 200 months of SPY to give any kind of signal\LOL
I just emailed WSJ to bring back red + green candle charts;
black + grey charts are a strain. Even though all newspapers used to use that cheap ink.
Blue, red, green candle charts with purple50dma........ are still enjoyed.
WSJ has a cute marketing trick, they use green DOW + grey + black NQ/SPY line charts

 

Altman z score, credit rating, CDS spread, and liquidity ratios (current ratio, ebitda/ interest income, debt / total equity).

 

Debt, increasing in down market not good.

 

CANSLIM. marketsmith made answering this question extremely easy.

 

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EXACTLY/
+ takes more than 3.33 minutes ...............................................................

 

Cash Flow from Operations and DSO/DSI.

Days sales outstanding (DSO) is a measure of the average number of days that it takes a company to collect payment for a sale.

The days sales of inventory (DSI) is a financial ratio that indicates the average time in days that a company takes to turn its inventory,

 

This is ET. Not everyone is familiar with obscure acronyms. Yes, I googled it . Next time be a sport and at minimum spell it out.

 

Revenue per employee graph.