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Knowledge@Wharton	How Employee Stock Options Can Undermine the Value of Ordinary Shares What effect do options have on the number of stock shares a company has in circulation? The answer can make a big difference when a company computes its earnings per share, and when investors calculate the critical price-to-earnings ratio.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2004 Jim Schoettler	Uncovering the Billion-Dollar Secret Traditional stock option accounting practices lead companies to overstate their net income. Here is a look at how significant these overstatements are, who's responsible for fixing the problem, and what they're doing about it to place themselves and their investors in an advantageous position.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2004 Bill Mann	The Best Stock Options Model Are there perfect ways to value stock options? No. But anything is better than this. What's the sign that the Financial Accounting Standards Board is thinking about requiring stock options to be expensed? Lots of trips to Washington by Silicon Valley executives, and pre-emptive bills in Congress. Certainly, someone up there recognizes that accounting is best left to accountants.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Bill Mann	Intel's Red Herring Intel CEO spells doom and gloom if option expensing is mandatory. Please.
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003	Are Stock Options In Your Future? Given the recent turmoil surrounding stock options -- including well-publicized abuses of executive stock options, the depressed market, and anticipated new rules on the expensing of options -- has this once-popular form of compensation lost its appeal?
HBS Working Knowledge June 18, 2007 Mihir Desai	Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field A Harvard Business School professor argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they report to shareholders.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Option Accounting Causes No Pain Options are being expensed on the income statement, and the world didn't come to an end. The truth is that these companies were already being valued by analysts with some form of accounting for options grants taking place.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004	How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings
The Motley Fool April 1, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	The Hole in the Red Hat Red Hat continues its stunning growth, but continues to give away shares left and right.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2004 Paul Elliott	An Investor's Worst Enemy As an investor, few things assure you'll go hungry like a board of directors cutting the pie into more and more pieces and handing them out. Excessive share dilution is precisely that.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Louis Lavelle	Time To Start Weighing The Options New Financial Accounting Standards Board rules make stock options an expense. How will companies cope?
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Bill Mann	Yes, Options Really Are an Expense The Financial Accounting Standards Board stares down the tech lobby and mandates that employee stock options must be expensed.
Knowledge@Wharton	New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options) A handful of technology companies are heading in alternative directions when it comes to giving employees incentives to stay and perform well.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Jeff Hwang	HP Out of Fantasy? Shareholders vote to expense stock options. As well they should.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2005 Rich Smith	Symantec vs. the Taxman If Symantec ultimately had to ante up 51.8% to the taxman, shareholders can take some consolation in the fact that the company made a whole bunch of money first.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison	What's in the Box, Jack? An earnings restatement driven by accounting changes doesn't change the big picture for fast-food chain operator Jack in the Box.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2004	Where Stock Options Come From Learn the pros and cons of these controversial beasts.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Jeff Hwang	A Costly Tech Buyback Selling options low and buying back shares high destroy Texas Instruments' value.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Bill Mann	Aligning Interests? Yeah, Right Cisco's employees apparently can't sell their stock options fast enough. Suits the company just fine.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2006 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: SYSCO Rebuttal Someone is getting rich from Cisco's operations, but it's not the shareholders. The company, with a current market value of around $136 billion, has spent more than a fourth of that buying back its own stock. Still, it has more shares outstanding than it did a decade ago.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	No Dip for Intersil's Chips The chip-maker's migration to better markets is still on track, and that should continue to be a lucrative move for shareholders.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Make the Most of Stock Options: The Basics Stock options can give employees of successful companies a huge incentive to work hard toward building shareholder value. Options can be a valuable part of compensation, but you have to manage them well.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2005 Richard Gibbons	Executive Compensation Evolves Why Omnicare's restricted stock compensation may become the standard.
CFO August 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Rich Duprey	Intel's Option Plan: Only Half Right A better option-repricing strategy is still no good.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2004 Bill Mann	Taking Advantage of the Terminally Stupid In a public filing, Concord unveiled a plan to buy back employee options at prices up to $4. The trouble is, with a $9 share price, options granted at $40 are worth basically nothing.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 Jeremy MacNealy	Jacked Up Jack in the Box posts solid quarterly results and raises guidance. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2004 Rich Smith	Corporations Never Pay Taxes Just about everybody remains agog at news that U.S. companies aren't paying income tax.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2004 Rich Smith	Symantec's Trojan Buyback The software company is raking in the cash and distributing it to insiders.
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Stock Options: The End of the Affair? For whatever reasons, more and more companies seem to be backing off of their love affair with options.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2005 Rich Smith	Stop! Thief! Is it ever a good thing when management steals your stake? Confusion abounds when talk turns to the concept of stock dilution. So here are the three primary sources of stock dilution so you know how to protect your investments from the very companies you're investing in.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: Cisco Bear Cisco's generous stock-option grants and its reluctance to embrace option expensing signal that its executives view the company's shareholders more as their own personal piggy bank than as the true owners and ultimate beneficiaries of the company's success.
CFO October 1, 2003	Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate.
Entrepreneur August 2003 Todd D. Maddocks	To the Rescue Jack and Diane aren't left to bail out their sinking land deal alone. Their franchisor throws them a lifesaver in the nick of time.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2006	On Employee Stock Options Companies often offer stock options to employees. Where does the stock in these options come from? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Xybernaut's Dilution Solution Expanding shares outstanding can make a shrinking loss look even better.
Knowledge@Wharton	Will Expensing Stock Options Create New Problems? Even as politicians and the media vilify stock options, experts from Wharton and elsewhere are asking if the blame is being misdirected, and if the solutions being adopted might bring about new problems.
Salon.com July 17, 2002 Scott Rosenberg	When good options turn bad Sure, let's punish stock-option-scamming CEOs and tighten up options accounting. But when options benefit everyday employees, they're worth defending.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Nanette Byrnes	Beyond Options However you slice it, the new mix will cost companies more
The Motley Fool June 25, 2011 Eric Bleeker	Read This Before You Buy Cisco: There Are Better Deals in Tech Cisco has some huge cash on its balance sheet, but watch out for the smoke and mirrors.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Roy Lewis	Retirees' Delightful Dividend Decision The IRS' indecision about retirement-community deductions could mean tax savings for senior citizens.
Knowledge@Wharton	Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages?
The Motley Fool February 19, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Take Your Options and Run Exercising stock options now might be the smart move, because of tax consequences.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2004 Chris Mallon	Shareholder Dilution Delusions Using shareholder cash to stem stock option dilution is a deceptive, wealth-destroying practice.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2005 Rich Smith	It's Warp Speed for Kforce Temp firm posts strong revenue growth, stronger earnings, rampant dilution.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2005 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: Taser Bear Even having lost two-thirds of its market cap since its peak, stun-gun manufacturer Taser is still no value.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Rich Smith	Symantec's Simply Terrific The Internet security company continues to post impressive numbers. Investors will want to continue to monitor Symantec's performance, and to pay special attention when (or if) the dilution rate appears to slow later this year.
The Motley Fool September 1, 2006 Roy Lewis	Tax Changes for Kids New legislation has made it more difficult for parents to shield higher taxes by passing investment income to the kids.
The Motley Fool October 25, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Coach's Questionable Call The company's performing very well, so why resort to pro forma reporting? Investors may not want to run out and add Coach to their portfolios just yet.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2005 Jim Mueller	Sportsman's Guide's Red Flag How many stock options is the outdoor gear seller giving out? And it wants more? Here's an investor's red flag.