On Wed, Aug 15, 2012, at 05:41 PM, Moose wrote:
> I've given my B-school/Econ lecture on marginal profit on manufactured
> goods here before. The increase in profit when
> sales of a product exceed projections can be enormous. To the
> uninitiated, the amounts can seem impossible.
>
> This is just one of the ways financials can be misleading. Oly made a lot
> of SHG lenses for the E system. My bet is that
> there are a lot of them sitting in warehouses, unsold and likely to
> remain so, carrying a lot of research, development,
> tooling and other costs, in addition to actual manufacturing costs. Have
> they been written* down? If not, what will that
> cost (not cash, that's gone, but financials loss), and how long can they
> delay it.
How many SHG lenses did they make?
If they had more than they could sell at the prices they wanted them to
command, what possible good is there in leaving them in a warehouse?
Why wouldn't Olympusamerica or Cameta be selling them on eBay as refurbs
or whatever?
Are these ideas based on any facts, or are they simply derived from your
assumption that the e-system was a failure? Maybe I missed something in
the company's financial scandal that plays into this.
Joel (always fell asleep in econ lectures) W.
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