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BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Louis Lavelle	Stock Options: The Fuzzy New Math In solving one problem by forcing companies to recognize that options have a cost, we've created something equally complex: Shareholders will have no way of knowing whether their companies are accurately estimating expenses or engaging in wishful thinking to burnish the bottom line.
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Jane Sasseen	Stock Options: Old Game, New Tricks Companies are finding ways to lower options costs despite stricter rules.
BusinessWeek July 24, 2006 Jane Sasseen	Ta-Da! Cheaper Stock Options! Companies are tinkering with the formulas they use to value them.
BusinessWeek October 23, 2006 Jane Sasseen	Master Of The Options Universe Chipmaker Analog Devices appears to have used every trick in the book.
Entrepreneur June 2005 Crystal Detamore-Rodman	Taking Stock Minimize the costs of new stock-option expensing rules.
Inc. April 2005 Michael Sisk	Taking Stock Stock options are about to get pricier, thanks to a new regulation passed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Fortunately, options are not the only way to dole out equity. Here are four other strategies for small businesses to consider.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2005 Rich Duprey	Candela's Options Zap Profits The aesthetic laser-maker will capitalize on an accounting rule to accelerate options vesting. The company is basing its decisions not on what's best for business, but on how to make the accounting look good. That should give investors a lot to think about.
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.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Hof & Kerstetter	Earth To Silicon Valley: You've Lost This Battle If anyone thought tech executives might finally give up their long fight against counting employee stock options as an expense, a rally on June 24 quashed that notion. Here's why tech should end its fight against options expensing.
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 David Henry	Earnings: It's Still Apples And Oranges Over the next several weeks, most companies will start factoring options expenses into their quarterly earnings results. But investors won't suddenly get clear visions of company profitability.
CFO May 1, 2004 Craig Schneider	Forget Black-Scholes? Why the traditional option-pricing model may not be the best way to value employee stock option grants.
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration?
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BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Steve Hamm	Chambers: Stock Options Inspire Innovation John T. Chambers, chief executive officer of networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., is an outspoken critic of upcoming accounting rules requiring companies to expense stock options. In an interview, Chambers explains his position:
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.
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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?
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.
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BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Mike McNamee	Options Expensing Is Here To Stay Does the nomination of Christopher Cox to head the Securities & Exchange Commission mean that the stock option expensing requirement will be held at bay?
The Motley Fool June 25, 2004 Bill Mann	Valley's Intellectual Bankruptcy Yesterday, the Financial Accounting Standards Board held a contentious roundtable in Palo Alto, Calif., to discuss FASB's standing proposal to require American companies to treat stock options granted to employees as an expense.
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.
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 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.
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.
CFO July 1, 2004 Don Durfee	Better Carrots? Big changes are under way in long-term incentive compensation, a new survey finds. But they may not be big enough.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Coalition of the Greedy CEOs are fighting to keep the stock options gravy train rolling at shareholders' expense. Three cheers for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which recently released its proposal to require companies to expense stock options.
The Motley Fool September 3, 2004 Chris Mallon	Optional No Longer Expense-free option grants are a thing of the past, thanks to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new rule.
Inc. March 2005 Darren Dahl	FASB Limits Stock Options What new stock option rules mean for you. If you hand out stock options to employees, a controversial ruling from the Financial Accounting Standards Board might give you pause.
BusinessWeek September 11, 2006 David Henry	How The Options Mess Got So Ugly--And Expensive As stock option grants soared in the 1990s, so did the temptation to cheat when issuing them.
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The Motley Fool November 10, 2005 Salim Haji	Distractions at Whole Foods Though good numbers continue at the grocer, recent announcements raise questions about driving long-term shareholder value.
Entrepreneur November 2002 C.J. Prince	There's No Hiding It All the cool companies are expensing their options. Can your business survive without that extra earnings padding?
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The Motley Fool December 23, 2005 Philip Durell	First Data Fiddles Around A stock-option plan won't hurt the parent company of Western Union financially, or change its valuation, but it does say something about the board and the executives who deem it worth fiddling with the plan to dress up future income statements.
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CFO May 1, 2003 Kris Frieswick	Better Options Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance.
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CFO September 1, 2006 Ronald Fink	Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance.
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CFO August 1, 2003 Julia Homer	Days of Future Past A year after the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress has proposed a bill that undercuts the intent of the legislation.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Stock Options Hurt U.S. Competitiveness The failure to expense stock options is causing distortions and inefficiencies in U.S. labor and capital markets.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Steve Hamm	Expense Options -- but Give Startups a Break Large companies can afford to expense options, but startups could find it harder to bring new innovations to market. Expensing would make it more difficult for startups to recruit, since they use the potential of a huge options payday to lure top talent.
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InternetNews July 20, 2004 Roy Mark	House Votes to Block Stock Option Expensing The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation supported by the tech industry to pre-empt a proposed federal accounting regulation calling for corporations to deduct the cost of all employee stock options from their profits.