When you go to buy a car, yeah, you’re buying a massive computer system these days, but when it all boils down, you went to purchase a car, that’s why you went to the car lot not to Fry’s. The accounting rules for revenue recognition for sales involving multiple element arrangements, like buying a car with a computer, have recently become a whole lot easier. Many public companies like Apple early adopted these new accounting rules because they allow the company to accelerate the period of recognizing revenues. In Apple’s case…