Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (30402)	10/23/2000 10:07:42 AM
From: Perspective	Respond to of 436258

I think you're correct there. I'm not an accounting expert. All I know is that pooling of interests results in no representative charge, but purchases result in what you'd expect. I think it has to be spread out over a period of time - depreciated like any other major capital expense. This may not be all that important in reality - they will just continue to issue "pro-forma" numbers to the public. Unless the "New Era" investor, with all this access to data, actually begins to ask the question: "Why does Sickso give me one number, when they tell the SEC a completely different number? And what does the minus sign in front of the earnings mean?" <ggggg> One can only hope for a little enlightenment... BC