Microsoft Fiscal Year 2011 Fourth Quarter Earnings - 2:30pm PT

[Seece]

RolStoppable said:

Seece said:
MS need to sort their maths out, keep saying they shipped 13.7 mill 360's this year, but it adds up to 13.5 not 13.7

How did you calculate the total? I assume by adding up the numbers of the four individual quarters.

A difference of 0.2m could easily be explained by rounding. For example, if the individual quarters all are 3.44m, then you get 3.4m x 4 which equals 13.6m. But by doing so you actually lose 160k units over the course of the full year, because the actual total would be 13.76m which when rounded results in 13.8m.

I hope that helped.

Thanks, yeah it does, I wonder if they've already worked that into the numbers, as they adjusted up to 53.6 last Q from 53.5, but it seems that was made from the previous year .. hm