Abstract: The present disclosure provides a surface cleaning apparatus that includes an illumination system having lighting to illuminate a floor surface or other area being cleaned. The lighting for the illumination system includes a plurality of lights, light sources, and/or lighting zones disposed around a housing of the apparatus. The illumination system can output a condition, status, state, alert or error to a user by emitting visible light and varying an intensity, color, wavelength, temperature, or animation of the light. Methods for operating the illumination system are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a surface cleaning apparatus that includes an illumination system having lighting to illuminate a floor surface or other area being cleaned. The lighting for the illumination system includes a plurality of lights, light sources, and/or lighting zones disposed around a housing of the apparatus. The illumination system can output a condition, status, state, alert or error to a user by emitting visible light and varying an intensity, color, wavelength, temperature, or animation of the light. Methods for operating the illumination system are also provided.

Abstract: An automatic international tax planning system is described. In a distributed client server computer network, a transaction analyzer and tax planning system is employed to define a transaction between a company in a first country and a company in a second country. The system first identifies the business entities within a multinational company and the tax paying status for the business entities with respect to an international transaction. The system next identifies any intercompany transactions that can be created to reduce taxes paid by the company for a transaction involving a second company in a receiving country. A user interface takes input in the form of data and parameters from a user, and provides a selection of possible strategies regarding the routing and/or structuring of the transaction. The user selects one or more strategies to evaluate and engages a tax calculation engine to calculate the tax cost associated with the selected strategy.