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The Opportunity in Beaten-Down, Money-Losing Growth Businesses

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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The Importance of SG&A Expensing

The traditional metrics quote unquote don't make sense anymore, don't work. And when asked for a prescription of what this person would do to fix the flaws in the accounting regime, he said there should be just no expensing whatsoever. The R&D should just be like, I think 100% capitalized, which was stunning that you can capitalize an asset and not amortize it over some sort of useful life because no R&D leads to like a perpetual asset as far as I've ever been made aware.

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