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Google’s accounting expert is here — Douglas Skinner, a deputy dean and professor at the University of Chicago.
Skinner begins by saying that “Epic overstates the profitability of Google Play,” because it “excludes the costs of the investments Google has made over the years in Android.”
Google spent a good bit of time talking up his credibility before submitting him as a witness. He was a professor at the Roth School of Business from 1989 through 2005 before joining the University of Chicago and says he chairs an investment group that manages around $45 billion in assets.
He’s talking about how he teaches “managerial accounting,” a field which, I assume, will help Google make its case that it didn’t need to include Android costs in Play’s P&L.
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