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Re: don't understand finance

From Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: don't understand finance
Date 2017-02-09 16:24 -0800
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On 2017-02-09 14:54, Tom Gardner wrote:
> On 09/02/17 19:58, John Larkin wrote:
>>
>> http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/09/twitter-shares-crash-following-quarterly-earnings-report-release/
>>
>>
>> How can they have earnings of 16 cents per share, but a loss of $144
>> million in the same quarter?
>>
>> I wonder what Twitter does to have expenses around a few billion a
>> year. The free food and bean-bag chairs can't cost that much.
>
> What's two plus two?
> Bad accountant: 3.
> Normal accountant: 4.
> Good accountant: "what do you want it to be?"
>

Really bright accountant: "-18527, and I can get you a nice loss 
carry-forward for the next, oh, 10 years or so"

:-)

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-09 11:58 -0800
  Re: don't understand finance Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-02-09 22:54 +0000
    Re: don't understand finance Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-02-09 16:24 -0800
      Re: don't understand finance Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-02-10 00:47 +0000
  Re: don't understand finance Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2017-02-09 17:58 -0600
  Re: don't understand finance Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-02-10 00:55 +0000
    Re: don't understand finance rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-09 20:02 -0500
      Re: don't understand finance Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-02-09 17:07 -0800
      Re: don't understand finance Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2017-02-11 23:57 -0600
        Re: don't understand finance rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 01:08 -0500
          Re: don't understand finance krw@notreal.com - 2017-02-12 17:03 -0500
            Re: don't understand finance pcdhobbs@gmail.com - 2017-02-12 14:18 -0800
              Re: don't understand finance krw@notreal.com - 2017-02-12 17:40 -0500
              Re: don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-12 14:54 -0800
        Re: don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-12 14:51 -0800
  Re: don't understand finance Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-02-10 16:07 +0000
  Re: don't understand finance Joe Chisolm <jchisolm6@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-10 11:51 -0600
    Re: don't understand finance John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-02-10 11:22 -0800
      Re: don't understand finance Joe Chisolm <jchisolm6@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-10 14:11 -0600
  Re: don't understand finance Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-10 14:07 -0800

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