Board rules options be counted as expenses
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The nation's accounting rule maker decided yesterday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, reining in a cheap way to compensate workers that had been abused by executives and clouded earnings.
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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.
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There's money on the table if you take some energy-saving steps.
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By Greg Farrell, USA TODAY  A: Boards are not accountable to shareholders. Compensation is really about boards that haven't been responsible to shareholder concerns about the best way to create value.
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The debate over whether companies should  treat stock options as an expense draws mixed reactions from Washington area businesses, some of which have a lot to lose if the accounting rule changes.
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Accounting rule-makers approved plans Thursday forcing companies to expense employee stock options by the middle of 2005, a long-anticipated move that opponents say won&#39;t be the last word on the issue.
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Cisco Systems Inc. , Genentech Inc. , and Qualcomm Inc. will present accounting rule makers with a revised method to expense stock options that would cut the cost to companies about 70 percent, a lawyer for the companies said.
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Corrects 13th paragraph to show all registered member firms receive payment to recognize cost savings
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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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An article last Sunday in the special Your Taxes report about tips for preparing a tax return referred incompletely to the limit on claims for refundable alternative minimum tax credits resulting from the exercise of incentive stock options. While it is $5,000 under one calculation method, some taxpayers may claim more than that under a second method if their income is not too high.
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An independent audit committee assembled by network technology provider Broadcom in the wake of the industry-wide SEC options backdating scandal, has found that stock options granted to executives and employees for a nearly five-year period were improperly accounted for.
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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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It's about time! We're always told to diversify our investments. Shouldn't companies diversify their boards?
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IRVINE, Calif. -- Broadcom Corp., a supplier of chips used in communications devices, said Friday it may need to record expenses starting at $1.5 billion for stock option accounting flaws, double what it had estimated in July.
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Stock options again The Verisign board has decided to restate more than four years worth of financial reports after an internal review found stock options may have made them unreliable.â¦
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PARIS Stock option accounting has become an international battleground, but those wars may be nearing an end as major industrial countries move toward rules that force companies to deduct the value of options from their earnings.
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In a move that may be seen by some in corporate America as an early lump of coal in many Christmas stockings, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will require companies to report the cost of stock options in their financial statements beginning next year, it announced Thursday.