Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Kartik Mehta - FTN Midwest Securities Corp.
Kartik Mehta - FTN Midwest Securities Corp.
I was hoping to get a little bit better explanation of what you had in your press release about the onetime expenses as a result of legal and accounting. If you could just talk about that, what they were and what that was the result of.
Kevin D. Williams
Well, in G&A in total, Kartik, we had about $1.2 million or actually about - the impact was about $0.015, I guess, in the quarter.
The biggest part of that was a write-off of some land improvements that we did here a few years ago on our campus. When we were building our last building back in '03, we were actually planning to build sister buildings. And we went ahead and did a lot of the land improvements for the second building, and we had kept that on the drawing board.
But as the economy has changed and the price of gas, and with the number of employees we have in Springfield, we have now made the decision to build these two facilities in Springfield that we are now moving some dirt for and we'll start construction here very shortly. But when we made that decision, we were prompted to write-off those land improvements because we knew that we would probably never build J9 here on our campus. So that was the lion's share of the one-time hit.
The legal and accounting, professional services, was a combination of things. We had a lot of tax issues that we were dealing with the fourth quarter due to FIN 48, and some deferred tax things that we hired a Big Four firm to come in and help clean some of that up. Obviously, we had some legal and accounting issues that we needed assistance with surrounding the discontinued ops. And then just, you know, the ongoing normal corporate-type litigation that we face every day. Just kind of a combination of all those added up to a significantly higher dollar amount of professional services than what we had in the fourth quarter a year ago.
Kartik Mehta - FTN Midwest Securities Corp.
So if you look at FY 2009 guidance, Kevin, would you use the base as what you've reported for the year or are you going off of the base excluding these one-time items? So would you add back the possibly $0.02 to $0.03 because of these one-time items.
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