Internet Based Tax Briefing 1 – Haig Simmons Aqeel A Sahibzada‚ University of Maryland University College ACCT 613/9040 – Professor Bruce McClain October 14‚ 2012 Subject: Haig Simmons – Loss recognition on anthracite coal future contracts‚ capital or ordinary loss Facts Taxpayer Haig Simmons operates an in home coal heating and delivery service for consumer uses in Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties. Due to the instability of coal resources and prices‚ Haig Simmons enters
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Nokia Microsoft alliance LONDON – Feb. 11‚ 2011 – Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers‚ operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity. As each company would focus on its core competencies‚ the partnership would create the opportunity
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1. History of Microsoft: -Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates (CEO) and Paul Allen -Industry: Computer software and hardware -Revenue: $77.85 billion (2013) -Employees: 100‚932 worldwide 2. Why Microsoft? Microsoft is one of the world’s leading brands in computer technology‚ and so it is of interest to discover how they motivate and encourage their employees to achieve such great success. Microsoft is currently ranked second on the list of best companies to work for in the UAE‚ but why is this so
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Oracle Data Pump is a new and unique feature of Oracle Database 11g. A new public interface package‚ DBMS_DATAPUMP‚ provides a server-side infrastructure for fast data and metadata movement between Oracle databases. It is ideal for large databases and data warehousing environments‚ where high-performance data movement offers significant time savings to database administrators. Data Pump automatically manages multiple‚ parallel streams of unload and load for maximum throughput. The degree of parallelism
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The first and most important decision you need to make is between Microsoft and Apple. Both are excellent brands but one might fit the individuals needs more than the other for different purposes. There are many different needs for computers and the right brand or the better brand in some cases might differ on what the need is at the time. The biggest difference between Microsoft and apple is user friendly interface. Microsoft created by Bill Gates was has a very user friendly program that anybody
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Strategic Problems Improving Microsoft’s standing as an innovator Over the past few years‚ Microsoft has been suffering from their reputation as a follower since Apple and Google have taken the lead in the world of smartphones and tablets. Microsoft’s Xbox business keeps them ahead in the gaming industry (34% market share) which will keep them relevant and afloat in the 13-30 age demographic‚ but the company overall could use an upgrade in its reputation as a cutting-edge innovator. One key will
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nine employees. paired Kinect for Windows with its software to give consumers a Software and Services Kinect for Windows Technologies − Data depth − Microsoft .NET Framework retailers valuable feedback. Styku moved to market quickly using Hardware Kinect for Windows sensor For more information about other Microsoft customer successes‚ please visit: www.microsoft.com/casestudies chance to virtually try on clothes before they buy. The technology‚ soon to be offered by major
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1. award: 0 out of 0.00 points On June 1‚ Cline Co. paid $892‚000 cash for all of the issued and outstanding common stock of Renn Corp. The carrying values for Renn’s assets and liabilities on June 1 follow: Cash $ 178‚000 Accounts receivable 237‚000 Capitalized software costs 374‚000 Goodwill 110‚000 Liabilities (201‚000 ) Net assets $ 698‚000 Note: Parentheses indicate a credit balance. On June 1‚ Renn’s accounts receivable had a fair value of $155
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1. Describe Microsoft’s overall reporting strategy. Why had the company adopted this strategy and why was the SEC concerned about it? Answer: 1) Hiding profits – The success of Microsoft provided incentives in hiding success from regulators and competitors. There is high incentive to reduce their performance given the history of the company with regulatory intervention. Therefore‚ the company’s policy of software capitalization occurred before serious regulatory intervention. 2) Avoiding complacency
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Google failures. GOOGLE ANSWERS. In competition with Yahoo! Answers‚ Google created Google Answers a program which goal was to answer all kind of questions users could have. The program counted with a team of researchers guaranteeing correct‚ quality answers‚ despite this‚ users favored Yahoo!’s. WHY? First mistake Google made was charging clients for posts. People didn’t want to pay when they could use Yahoo‚ which is totally free‚ although their answers don’t have the same quality as the ones
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