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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1—Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Apple Computer, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the Company) designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers and related software,
services, peripherals, and networking solutions. The Company also designs, develops, and markets a line of portable digital music players
along with related accessories and services including the online distribution of third-party music, audio books, music videos, short films, and
television shows. The Company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its own retail stores, its direct sales force, and third-
party
wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In addition to its own hardware, software, and peripheral products, the Company sells a
variety of third-party hardware and software products through its online and retail stores. The Company sells to education, consumer, creative
professional, business, and government customers.
Basis of Presentation and Preparation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been
eliminated. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in these consolidated financial statements and
accompanying notes. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. Certain prior year amounts in the consolidated financial
statements and notes thereto have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.
Typically, the Company’s fiscal year ends on the last Saturday of September. Fiscal years 2005, 2004, and 2003 were each 52-week years.
However, approximately every six years, the Company reports a 53-
week fiscal year to align its fiscal quarters with calendar quarters by adding
a week to its first fiscal quarter. The Company will add this additional week in the first fiscal quarter of its fiscal year 2006. All information
presented herein is based on the Company’s fiscal calendar.
Common Stock Split
On February 28, 2005, the Company effected a two-for-one stock split to shareholders of record as of February 18, 2005. All share and per
share information has been retroactively adjusted to reflect the stock split.
Financial Instruments
Cash Equivalents and Short-term Investments
All highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase are classified as cash equivalents. Highly liquid
investments with maturities greater than three months are classified as short-term investments. The Company’s debt and marketable equity
securities have been classified and accounted for as available-for-sale. Management determines the appropriate classification of its investments
in debt and marketable equity securities at the time of purchase and reevaluates available-for-sale designation as of each balance sheet date.
These securities are carried at fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses, net of taxes, reported as a component of shareholders’ equity.
The cost of securities sold is based upon the specific identification method.
Derivative Financial Instruments
The Company accounts for its derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities and carries them at fair value. Derivatives that are not defined
as hedges in SFAS 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, must be adjusted to fair value through earnings. If the
derivative is a hedge, depending on the nature of the hedge, changes in fair value will either be offset against the change in fair value of the
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