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To: technologiste who wrote (71339)	7/19/2002 1:56:45 AM
From: Exacctnt	Respond to of 74651

Excellent post. Your reasoning is dead on.

To: technologiste who wrote (71339)	7/19/2002 7:33:55 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

tech: All good and valid points. Preachin' to the choir. The reformers in the media and elsewhere are jerks who don't understand accounting. I am sure they would not know which side to put the debit or credit on. I am sure they would get it just backwards. Warren Buffet has his head up his butt on this one as does anyone else who is demanding these poor accounting changes.JFD

To: technologiste who wrote (71339)	7/19/2002 1:18:59 PM
From: jonkai	Respond to of 74651

Numerous companies, many in high tech, would have had to "erase", or more accurately, not be allowed to report, billions in profits because they had issued stock option grants imagine the horror.... instead of this increadible Bull Market bubble, and subsequent crash, and bankruptcies of business plans that made no sense and investors losing their life savings.. instead if the real expenses were shown of paying employees....we would have had a reasonable market that gained a little bit in 1997, 98 again in 99 2000, and then again in 01 02....... and we'd be right about where we are now, maybe a little less.... hmmm..... jon.