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I've been trying to get our IT manager to bend the knee on our own policy We ship our laptops off to some company who gives us some nominal amount for I assume

I've been trying to get our IT manager to bend the knee on our own policy We ship our laptops off to some company who gives us some nominal amount for I assume the scrap value of the machine, then we can donate it to a charity I'd be happy to "buy" an M1 Air with a cracked screen and run it as a headless Asahi Linux box for a hundred bucks or something. But he won't budge

droopyEyelids 3y ago
This is hard to change because its a policy that affects finance, legal, infosec, and it. Finance has been depreciating those laptops as capital assets and if youre going to buy one from the company that means its not depreciated, and they need to amend their taxes. Legal and security are concerned about the data and dont know how to prove the encryption really worked and the keys are gone, but the recycling company has insurance and certifications “proving” they dispose of things properly.
- repiret 3y ago
  You don’t need to amend your taxes to sell a fully depreciated asset.
  - sroussey 3y ago
    Sometime you can accelerate depreciation, so you would have to amend in that case.