Offering "Expert" Opinions -- Dickeson

What's all this business of slices? Gladwell intimates in "Blink" that it only takes an expert a thin slice of a situation to be able to reach a judgment. He gives many examples. I'm trying to extrapolate "Blink" to the evaluation of a printing business. Perhaps I'm cutting the slice a bit too thin in just looking at the physical condition and age of the raw inventory and the age of the receivables. What more do you think the expert need see to make a a quick judgment? Certainly if both inventory and receivables are in the intensive care unit we know we have a pretty sick business, don't we?