“…A simple Google search will produce results too numerous to count, including textbooks, practitioner and academic articles, website content, videos, and many other references to the model. (Huong, 2011;Cheng, 2015;Ashton, et.al., 2015;Liu, 2021) For the RIM to be most useful in examining the effects of share repurchases, it helps to reformulate the financial statement inputs needed to properly focus the analysis. Following the analysis in (Nissim, et.al., 2001), the financial statement reformulation here separates operating and financing items to highlight relevant features of share repurchases that properly categorize these transactions as financing related.…”