Summary: Slightly OT: Depreciating Sun Equipment

From: <PatMcAleavey_at_netscape.net>
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 15:39:25 EST
My original question:

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I'm in the process of purchasing some new Sun equipment for our company. I'm dealing with our accounting department to figure out a depreciation value to place on the equipment. The standard here is two years...for Intel based equipment. I'm of the opinion that we should look at a longer time period for the Sun equipment...I still have Sparc 10s that were desktop units that are humming along as file servers. Financially, it's a better deal if I can spread the costs over a longer period.

I would appreciate any views on this topic.

Thanks in advance.

Pat McAleavey
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Thanks to all who responded:

John Riddoch
Paul Galjan
Ric Anderson 
Doug Winter
Matt Harris
Mike Salehi
Dave Harrington
Rob Brockway
Rob Lyle
Bob Smart 
Willie Flint
Mike Willard
Mark Deiss
Dan
Guy Purcell
Andrew Rotramel
Christophe Dupre
Karl Vogel

The general consensus is that there is no general consensus. A few folks mentioned business tax laws relating to depreciation values which seems to suggest a two or three year time frame..

My problem actually turns out to be more of an internal problem. The company subjects each department to a "tax" on their computer equipment which gets depreciated over two years. The more equipment you have the bigger your "tax". The "tax" goes to supporting the IT department. Our arguement with corporate has to do with the fact that IT doesn't support about 90% of the equipment my group has....that's what I do. Our equipment is used for teaching customers and for software testing. 

Thanks again for all the replies...learned alot about tax codes!

Pat



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