Companies must expense stock options, standards board says
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ACCOUNTING:The new rules, which can be struck down by Congress, will force companies to subtract the option expense from earnings.
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The nation&#39;s accounting rulemaker decided Thursday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, a move cheered by shareholder advocates but scorned by many companies who rely heavily on options to
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FASB stares down the tech lobby and mandates that employee stock options must be expensed.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday took a step toward allowing foreign public companies to choose international accounting standards or U.S. rules when filing data with the agency.
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Bending to corporate and industry pressure, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to delay by six months the effective date for public companies to implement Statement 123R, its proposed standard that would require companies to expense the
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Accounting standards setters yesterday issued a long-awaited plan requiring companies to treat stock options as expenses on their books, even as lobbyists vowed to derail the initiative before it takes effect in June.
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American investors and European companies are opposing a proposal to allow foreign companies to use international accounting standards in filings with United States regulators.
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The company's lowered earnings expectations provide a reason to consider other options.
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Companies must start expensing employee stock options in earnings statements next year, US accounting rule makers declared on Thursday, a move that could signal the end of a long-standing bookkeeping practice that many argued allowed
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A band of tech companies will present an alternative method for valuing stock options that would provide lower expenses to the companies than legislation currently under review, according to a report published Tuesday.
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The Federal Accounting Standards Board has voted to give companies six more months to meet new rules that would require companies to consider employee stock options an expense.
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WASHINGTON -- A group of technology companies Tuesday renewed pressure on accounting rule makers to drop a stock-options expensing rule, unveiling an alternative that they say is easier and less expensive to adopt.
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People disagree about how companies should use excess cash.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday took a step toward allowing foreign public companies to choose between filing data under international accounting standards and U.S. rules.
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Conrad W. Hewitt, chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, sought yesterday to clarify the proper accounting for backdated options, reserving the harshest accounting for companies that followed a practice of reducing the exercise price after options were issued.
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Silicon Valley lost a decisive round in a long and hard-fought battle Thursday when the organization that sets corporate accounting standards served notice that companies would have to deduct the value of stock options when calculating profits.
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The US accounting standard setting body on Wednesday will consider a new model for valuing employee stock options that could potentially resolve some concerns of companies opposed to compulsory options expensing.