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SEC Comment Letter for COMMONWEALTH INCOME & GROWTH FUND II (CIK 0000938322) — Apr 8, 2005

COMMONWEALTH INCOME & GROWTH FUND II (CIK 0000938322)
Date: April 8, 2005 · CIK: 0000938322 · Accession: 0000000000-05-017048

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Date
April 8, 2005
Author
Accounting Branch Chief
Form
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COMMONWEALTH INCOME & GROWTH FUND II (CIK 0000938322)

Letter

via U.S. mail and facsimile Ms. Kimberly A. Springsteen Chief Financial Officer Commonwealth Income & Growth Fund II 470 John Young Way Exton, PA 19341 File No. 33-89476

RE: Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004

Dear Ms. Springsteen:

We have reviewed these filings and have the following comments. If you disagree with a comment, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with supplemental information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional comments.

Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or on any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter.

FORM 10-K FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2004

Comments applicable to your overall filing

1. Where a comment below requests additional disclosures or other revisions to be made, please show us in your supplemental response what the revisions will look like. These revisions should be included in your future filings.

Item 7 - Management`s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 16

2. Please disclose the amount you expect to invest in equipment in 2005 and how you anticipate funding these investments.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures, page 20

3. Please disclose whether there have been any changes in your internal controls and procedures during the most recently completed quarter. See Item 308 of Regulation S-K.

Financial Statements

Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Revenue Recognition, page 10

4. Please disclose how you account for (a) step rent provisions and escalation clauses and (b) capital improvement funding and other lease concessions, which may be present in your leases. Paragraph 19.b. of SFAS 13 discusses how rent should be reported as income over the lease term as it becomes receivable. However, if the rentals vary from a straight-line basis, the income shall be recognized on a straight-line basis unless another basis is more representative of the time pattern in which the benefit from the leased property is diminished. In addition, paragraph 5.n. of SFAS 13, as amended by SFAS 29, discusses how lease revenues that depend on an existing index or rate, such as the consumer price index or the prime interest rate, should also be included in your minimum lease revenues. If, as we assume, they are taken into account in computing your minimum lease revenues, the note should so state. If our assumption is incorrect, please tell us how your accounting complies with SFAS and FTB 88-1.

Long-Lived Assets, page 10

5. Please disclose the facts and circumstances that led to the impairment of certain assets, as well as a description of the impaired assets. See paragraph 26.a. of SFAS 144.

Note 3 - Net Investment in Direct Financing Leases, page 13

6. Please tell us if the residual values associated with your direct financing leases are guaranteed or unguaranteed, and how you are accounting for the residual values. See paragraph 18 of SFAS 13.

Note 4 - Computer Equipment, page 14

7. Please disclose that you pay remarketing fees to the leasing companies from which you purchase leases. Please disclose the amounts you have paid in the last three years and the related accounting treatment. Please also disclose the types of other lease acquisition costs you incur and your related accounting treatment for them as well.

* * * *

Please respond to these comments within 10 business days, or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please provide us with a supplemental response letter that keys your responses to our comments and provides any requested supplemental information. Detailed letters greatly facilitate our review. Please file your supplemental response on EDGAR as a correspondence file. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your responses to our comments.

We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosure in the filings reviewed by the staff to be certain that they have provided all information investors require for an informed decision. Since the company and its management are in possession of all facts relating to a company`s disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they have made.

In connection with responding to our comments, please provide, in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that: * the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in their filings; * staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and * the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

In addition, please be advised that the Division of Enforcement has access to all information you provide to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filing or in response to our comments on your filing.

If you have any questions regarding these comments, please direct them to Jeffrey Gordon, Staff Accountant, at (202) 824-5685 or, in his absence, to the undersigned at (202) 942-1774.

Sincerely,
Rufus Decker
Accounting Branch Chief

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Mail Stop 0510

      April 8, 2005

via U.S. mail and facsimile

Ms. Kimberly A. Springsteen
Chief Financial Officer
Commonwealth Income & Growth Fund II
470 John Young Way
Exton, PA  19341

	RE:	Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004

		File No. 33-89476

Dear Ms. Springsteen:

      We have reviewed these filings and have the following
comments.
If you disagree with a comment, we will consider your explanation
as
to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary.
Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation.  In some
of
our comments, we may ask you to provide us with supplemental
information so we may better understand your disclosure.  After
reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional
comments.

	Please understand that the purpose of our review process is
to
assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure
requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing.
We look forward to working with you in these respects.  We welcome
any questions you may have about our comments or on any other
aspect
of our review.  Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers
listed
at the end of this letter.

FORM 10-K FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2004

Comments applicable to your overall filing

1. Where a comment below requests additional disclosures or other
revisions to be made, please show us in your supplemental response
what the revisions will look like.  These revisions should be
included in your future filings.

Item 7 - Management`s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition
and Results of Operations

Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 16

2. Please disclose the amount you expect to invest in equipment in
2005 and how you anticipate funding these investments.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures, page 20

3. Please disclose whether there have been any changes in your
internal controls and procedures during the most recently
completed
quarter.  See Item 308 of Regulation S-K.

Financial Statements

Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Revenue Recognition, page 10

4. Please disclose how you account for (a) step rent provisions
and
escalation clauses and (b) capital improvement funding and other
lease concessions, which may be present in your leases. Paragraph
19.b. of SFAS 13 discusses how rent should be reported as income
over
the lease term as it becomes receivable.  However, if the rentals
vary from a straight-line basis, the income shall be recognized on
a
straight-line basis unless another basis is more representative of
the time pattern in which the benefit from the leased property is
diminished.  In addition, paragraph 5.n. of SFAS 13, as amended by
SFAS 29, discusses how lease revenues that depend on an existing
index or rate, such as the consumer price index or the prime
interest
rate, should also be included in your minimum lease revenues.  If,
as
we assume, they are taken into account in computing your minimum
lease revenues, the note should so state.  If our assumption is
incorrect, please tell us how your accounting complies with SFAS
13
and FTB 88-1.

Long-Lived Assets, page 10

5. Please disclose the facts and circumstances that led to the
impairment of certain assets, as well as a description of the
impaired assets.  See paragraph 26.a. of SFAS 144.

Note 3 - Net Investment in Direct Financing Leases, page 13

6. Please tell us if the residual values associated with your
direct
financing leases are guaranteed or unguaranteed, and how you are
accounting for the residual values.  See paragraph 18 of SFAS 13.

Note 4 - Computer Equipment, page 14

7. Please disclose that you pay remarketing fees to the leasing
companies from which you purchase leases.  Please disclose the
amounts you have paid in the last three years and the related
accounting treatment.  Please also disclose the types of other
lease
acquisition costs you incur and your related accounting treatment
for
them as well.

*    *    *    *

      Please respond to these comments within 10 business days, or
tell us when you will provide us with a response.  Please provide
us
with a supplemental response letter that keys your responses to
our
comments and provides any requested supplemental information.
Detailed letters greatly facilitate our review.  Please file your
supplemental response on EDGAR as a correspondence file.  Please
understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing
your
responses to our comments.

      We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filings reviewed by the staff to
be
certain that they have provided all information investors require
for
an informed decision.  Since the company and its management are in
possession of all facts relating to a company`s disclosure, they
are
responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the disclosures they
have made.

	In connection with responding to our comments, please
provide,
in writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that:
* the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in their filings;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action
with
respect to the filing; and
* the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any
proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the
federal securities laws of the United States.

		In addition, please be advised that the Division of
Enforcement has access to all information you provide to the staff
of
the Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filing
or
in response to our comments on your filing.

      If you have any questions regarding these comments, please
direct them to Jeffrey Gordon, Staff Accountant, at (202) 824-5685
or, in his absence, to the undersigned at (202) 942-1774.

							Sincerely,

							Rufus Decker
							Accounting Branch Chief

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Ms. Kimberly A. Springsteen
April 8, 2005
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-0510

         DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE

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