In Basic American, Inc. v. Shatila, 133 Idaho 726, 743, 992 P.2d 175, 192 (1999), the Court considered Rule 703, where a corporation's vice president of marketing and research testified as an expert witness, giving opinion testimony concerning the corporation's profits and costs. The vice president based his opinion in part upon a report prepared by another employee of the corporation. The Supreme Court upheld admission of the testimony under Rule 703 because the trial court had properly determined that the vice president was a qualified expert and that the other employee's report contained the sort of information that experts in that field would rely upon in forming an opinion. Importantly, the other employee's report itself was not admitted into evidence and, indeed, the party proffering the expert testimony conceded that the report was hearsay and not admissible to establish the truth of the information contained within it.