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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 159.42-1.2%Jan 16 3:59 PM EST
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To: quartersawyer who wrote (79306)7/28/2008 8:04:37 PM
From: CrackheadBob  Read Replies (1) of 197281
 
What you are missing is that the contract is not in any way going to discern between the past royalties owed and a new licensing fee. There is just a single licensing fee that will get amortized however the bean counters are going to amortize it. When negotiated, the licensing fee included past amounts owed and a new fee for future payments. But those two things are just included in a single License Fee.

If they actually broke out past payments due separately in the contract, I bet that would be a huge mess for the accountants because all of the past quarters would need to be restated. It is much easier all around to call it a new licensing fee and amortize it over 15 years. In order to catch up, they amortize since the beginning of the new contract (April 2007) to get everything current.

If you want to know how big the fee is, pay attention to the Balance Sheet and the Cash Flow Statements.
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