The issue to be raised in the memo includes the impact on profit; that is by increasing the estimated life on its capitalised software costs, MouseTrap reduces the annual amount of amortisation expense which results in a corresponding increase in reported profit.From an analyst’s perspective, one concern would be whether this twelve-year life is reasonable given that software products become obsolete very quickly. Another concern is that the qualitative characteristic of comparability is affected: for example, it becomes more difficult to compare the current year’s results with previous years’ because previous years used the three-year estimated life.
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