Article: Stock options proposal stirs debate; High-tech industry quickly attacks plan.(News)

Article: Policy Forum: Comments on Tax and Financial Accounting for Employee Stock Options
Canadian Tax Journal;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Editor's note: Employee stock options were a ubiquitous form of...in the technology sector, employee stock options have become a much less attractive...appropriate tax treatment of employee stock options depends upon the answers to...

Article: FASB Action Slams Growth-Oriented Small Businesses; Proposal to Mandate Expensing of Employee Stock Options Will Impede Entrepreneurship and Innovation in America.
PR Newswire;  March 31, 2004 ;     642 words ......mandate the expensing of employee stock options, the Financial Accounting...are highly dependent on employee stock options to recruit and retain employees...the mandatory expensing of employee stock options carries a cost that is too...

Article: Stock Market Undervalues Costs of Options, Says Washington University Research; Aggressive Use of Employee Stock Options May Represent a Transfer of Wealth From Long-Term to Short-Term Shareholders.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  July 26, 2002 ;     340 words ......discussion has focused on how employee stock options should be treated in corporate...firm's value stemming from employee stock options. However, research he recently...the Potential Dilution of Employee Stock Options? he and co-author Gary T...

Article: Weighing the options: employee stock options could encourage the wrong kind of performance. (Spotlight).
Business Mexico;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the issuance of employee stock options and instead utilize...news stones about stock options have focused on...compensation-based stock options on their income...compensation-based stock options on their income...movement away from stock options has ...

Article: National Venture Capital Association Asserts the Mandatory Expensing Of Employee Stock Options Will Harm Start Up Companies Irreparably.
PR Newswire;  March 13, 2002 ;     682 words ......require the expensing of employee stock options will destroy a critical...recommendations, as they rely on employee stock options to attract top talent to...companies are forced to expense employee stock options, we believe that most companies...

Article: Telus extends employee stock options.
RCR Wireless News;  March 19, 2001 ;     149 words ......telecommunications company, has extended its employee stock options to every employee in the company...than 20,000 employees with 100 stock options in Telus non-voting shares...the country provide universal employee stock options.

Article: China's new rules on employee stock options.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  December 13, 2006 ;     161 words ......clarify its position on employee stock options, which had been previously...making increasing use of employee stock options as part of their staff retention...to make China's laws on employee stock options more flexible. Publication...

Article: Accounting may derail market for employee stock options
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Zions Bancorp. push to value employee stock options using a market-based approach...Questions about valuing employee stock options have become more pressing...yield low-ball valuations of employee stock options. Zions, which held the first-ev...

Article: Backdating Employee Stock Options: Tax Implications
The CPA Journal;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......price at a future date. Because stock options are an employment incentive tied...In addition, compensation through stock options provides tax benefits to both the...investigating instances of backdated stock options. Through backdating, employers select...investigation, the IRS ...

Article: SIIA Responds to FASB Decision on Employee Stock Options; Wasch Says Decision Does Not Adequately Address Valuation Issue.
PR Newswire;  March 13, 2003 ;     396 words ......regarding accounting for employee stock options, Ken Wasch, President of...question of how to value employee stock options. While FASB has now formally...controversy about how to expense [employee stock options], it may conceivably even...

Article: GM employee stock options to be expensed beginning in 2003
AP Worldstream;  August 6, 2002 ;     372 words ......General Motors Corp. will begin charging its stock options as an expense against earnings beginning...change to a stricter accounting method for stock option reporting in the wake of corporate...Coca-Cola and Internet retailer Amazon.com. Stock options are held by about 53,000 GM employees ...

Article: SPA comes down hard on proposed FASB accounting rule change. (Software Publishers Association, Financial Accounting Standards Board to change employee stock options' accounting standard)
Software Industry Report;  November 15, 1993 ;     316 words ......standard changes dealing with employee stock options will seriously limit the growth...the estimated values of the stock options. A bill introduced by Sen...companies typically offer stock options to their employees. Carolyn...

Article: FASB adds projects on employee stock options, pensions.
Westchester County Business Journal;  March 24, 2003 ;     337 words ......whether to require the cost of employee stock options be treated as an expense...compensation cost relating to employee stock options. The board also believes...the costs associated with employee stock options, he said. While a number...

Article: GM to Expense Employee Stock Options
AP Online;  August 6, 2002 ;     371 words ......General Motors Corp. will begin charging its stock options as an expense against earnings beginning...change to a stricter accounting method for stock option reporting in the wake of corporate...Coca-Cola and Internet retailer Amazon.com. Stock options are held by about 53,000 GM employees ...