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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bosco who wrote (10256)	1/16/2001 5:39:14 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30051

Bosco, there are strict rules that need to be followed, hard assets bought (excluding working capital and cash of course) can be marked to market and treated as cap-ex. The advantage of treating as large a portion of the acquisition as cap-ex, is the ability to depreciate these and get tax benefits on the depreciation (part of the acquisition is paid by the IRS). As far as I know, you don't get tax benefits on amortized "goodwill". It looks that, once more, I had the "right call" on NVLS, but I got out prematurely, it just printed $44-9/16, well, happy with my $5 and don't mind leaving another $1.5 to $2 on the table. Zeev