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Killing The Goose.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Markets: The nation's top accounting group wants companies to expense the stock options they give to their best talent. It's a bad idea -- one that will hurt American companies' ability to compete.
Employee stock options have been blamed for many of corporate America's supposed ills -- from runaway executive compensation to phony and misleading income statements.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board wants to cure these ills by making companies expense the options on their income statements when they're given -- not when they're exercised.
This will have a devastating impact on America's innovators, the small and startup businesses that create virtually all of the new products, ideas and jobs that fuel rising living standards.
Most small companies can't compete with bigger ones for talent by paying big salaries. They don't have the cash.
Instead, they give their best workers stock options -- that is, a chance to get rich in the future, if they're successful.
It's been one of the bedrocks of our high-tech success since shortly after World War II, when options first began to be used.
- Stock Options
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- Financial Executive Wolk, Harry I. Rozycki, John J. July 1, 1994 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: California CPA Iqbal, M. Zafar August 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Stock options a drag on Agere; new rule says they must be counted as an expense.
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...doubled if the company had to expense stock options it issued to its employees and executives...companies to reflect the value of stock options in their earnings. Agere's grant of 65 million stock options last year would have resulted in...
- Stock Options Are Often The Forgotten Asset In Planning.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition Lang, Patrick A. April 2, 2001 700+ words
Very often, stock options make up a significant portion of...even a basic understanding of how stock options work. This lack of understanding...articles do not address planning with stock options. In addition, most self-employed...
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- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) Ali, Anjuman May 1, 2005 700+ words
...Wisconsin State Journal Don't expect stock options to disappear from employee compensation...despite a federal requirement to list stock options as expenses, say area experts and...executives. "We would continue to use stock options. They are a way to attract talent...
