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Old 1st Aug 2020, 04:23
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Originally Posted by tdracer
Ditching
Yesterday Boeing announced a $2.4 Billion loss in the last quarter - adding to the billions they'd already lost last year.
According to comment on Leeham News (https://leehamnews.com/2020/07/29/bo...-and-covid-19/), it's actually much worse than that.
The chances of either the B787 or the B737MAX programmes reaching their 'accounting block' production targets in the foreseeable future - or indeed ever - are becoming more and more remote each Quarter. However, continued use of Program Accounting allows Boeing to defer recognising and crystallising billions and billions of dollars in losses until the indefinite future, or until the company wants to put Boeing Commercial Aircraft into Chapter 11. My own view is that's at least a 50/50 proposition.
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