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To: Boca_PETE who wrote (4420)	4/1/1998 9:34:00 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Thanks Pete. I should not have said "depreciated" but "not carried on the books at market value". I guess I really mean the land might have been purchases in 1970 for $50,000 and now is worth $1,000,000 (just making up numbers). Wouldn't this be the case? I'm not sure where I am going other than there was alot of inflation in the 1970's and then all this buyout and sell-off the assets occured. Could there be something here that explains the higher valuations? Does a big company like IBM or GM figure their ROA from their assets valued at the fair market value? (terrible writing, but I am in a rush....sorry) regards Kirk