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Cloud desktops move the numbers game from CapEx to OpEx. “CFOs love this one cool trick!”
by t3rabytes 3y ago
Cloud desktops move the numbers game from CapEx to OpEx.
“CFOs love this one cool trick!”
- Takennickname 3y agoYou can buy a better specced laptop in a year.
- t3rabytes 3y agoHow many big corps in the US (I live in the US so that’s my reference) are doing engineering hardware rotation at sub-2 years? Most are likely to be 3.
- scarface_74 3y agoThe “frugal” FAANG is four…
- reaperman 3y ago"Most" companies in the USA are on a 5-year laptop replacement cycle because that's what the IRS set the MACRS depreciation schedule to for "consumer electronics" (really, category 00.12 in Table B-1 of Publication 946). Each year following the purchase they can write off the following on their taxes: Year 1: 20% Year 2: 32% Year 3: 19.20% Year 4: 11.52% Year 5: 11.52% Year 6: 5.76% Why accountants are actually in charge of the rate at which laptops get purchased, instead of just the paperwork for the tax deductions caused by the rate of laptop purchases....I truly do not understand.
- pjmlp 3y agoYeah, but hardly companies want to do that for contractors working on delivery, for non software focused industries.