Technology Spending is on the Rise Despite a Down Economy

Fueled by an accelerating move to cloud computing, and by a boom in associated telecommunications services, worldwide information technology spending is increasing somewhat faster than expected, according to industry analysts at Gartner.  

Over all, people will spend $3.6 trillion on information technology in 2012, the research firm said. This represents a 3 percent increase from 2011, when $3.5 trillion was spent, Gartner said, and is up from the 2.5 percent increase projected three months ago.

The increase, while modest, is notable because it is happening in the face of a financial crisis in Europe, slow growth in the United States, and a slowdown in China’s economic growth.

Spending on public cloud services is expected to increase 20 percent, to $109 billion, from $91 billion in 2011. By 2016, Gartner said, this expenditure could nearly double, to $207 billion.

That would still be a relatively small portion of the total spending, though it tends to represent considerable computing power and potentially more efficient I.T. systems.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/information-technology-spending-to-hit-3-6-trillion-in-2012-report-says/?smid=li-share

Emerging Leader- Jared Belnap

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Jared Belnap, President, Mazuma Capital

By Abigail Sutton, Editor

During his tenure in the leasing industry Jared Belnap has personally closed over $150 million in lease transactions and has garnered extensive experience in credit, syndication, sales, legal, documentation, and executive management. Belnap helped create Mazuma. First, as a co-founder and private investor, then, serving as vice president of sales/corporate secretary through December 2007 and in his current position, as president since January 2008. His performance and experience have been invaluable in the formation and implementation of Mazuma’s infrastructure, website development, marketing, documentation, sales and sales management, formation of key strategic relationships and other important functions within Mazuma’s framework. Belnap is an introspective leader who achieves success through calculated risk, for this and more we chose him as February’s Emerging Leader.

Teri Gerson, President & CEO of Executive Solutions for Leasing and Finance, Inc. had this to say about Belnap’s skill and leadership, “Jared Belnap has impressed me with his commitment to analyzing before pulling the trigger.  This saves tremendous back pedaling, both with market entrees, employee hires, and sales force structure. He is thoughtful, honest, and fair in all of his dealings, and always takes a broad view without sacrificing practicality and reality relative to his company.”

Mazuma Capital Partners: Lease Accounting Standards Talks Still Underway

Mazuma Capital Partners: Lease Accounting Standards Talks Still Underway:

Hitting an impasse over how to account for short-term, rental-like leases, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board will regroup next week to discuss their findings after additional research on an eleventh-hour proposal.


FASB and IASB are in the home stretch of redeliberating a new accounting standard for how to account for all leases to bring them on the balance sheet and banish the bright-line distinction between operating leases and capital leases. The boards have long wrestled, however, with how to develop a straightforward method to account for leases like today's operating leases, which tend to represent short-term arrangements for limited access to a given asset bearing little resemblance to the purchase of the asset. They are trying to put the finishing touches on a revised proposal so that it can be issued for a fresh round of comments and wrapped up by 2013.

Mazuma Capital (Equipment Lease & Financing/Direct Lending) - Draper, UT...

World Leasing News Features Emerging Leader’s- Mazuma Capital CEO, Jared Belnap

World Leasing News Features Emerging Leader’s- Mazuma Capital CEO, Jared Belnap

Most Recent Funding at Mazuma Capital

Section 179 for 2012

Section 179 limits for the year 2012 were increased by the 'Jobs Act of 2010' which allows businesses to write-off up to $139,000 of qualified capital expenditures subject to a dollar-for-dollar phase-out once these expenditures exceed $560,000 in the 2012 tax year.

Bonus Depreciation was also increased to 50% by the 'Tax Relief Act of 2010' which allows larger businesses that exceed the $560,000 cap to write-off 50% of qualified assets using first year Bonus Depreciation. Also, small businesses that are not profitable in 2012 can use 50% Bonus Depreciation (on new equipment only) and carry-forward the loss to future profitable years.

This should mean a substantial boost to your bottom line this year. But, to get the deduction for tax year 2012, you have to act this year, as once the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2012; Section 179 can't increase your 2012 profits anymore.