In addition, the $5.5 billion write-down that NVIDIA took is probably composed of inventory and the rest in purchase commitments and relative reserves.
During the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000, it took American venture-capital managers nearly half a year to report impairments after public markets peaked.
Banks are under pressure to make sure that offices remain the standard working environment or they will need to do significant write downs if defaults continue.
These are disclosure instruments that aren't mark-to-market, but they're required to be measured at fair value, you know, periodically, maybe because of impairment or something else.
British American Tobacco said it would take an impairment charge of around 25bn pounds (31.5bn dollars), as it writes down the carry value of its cigarette assets over the next 30 years.
So now when I'm reclassifying everything back, I'm doing my depreciation, etc. I should not need to do impairment testing because I have already written everything down?
So when we do this reclassification into the health for sale assets and liabilities, we're going to first test all of your kind of non ASC360 assets for impairment.
Then there's Boeing, which after taking a non-cash charge or two for whatever issue might be on the table, should offer a restrained set of positives that will get the stock moving higher.