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The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 Bill Mann	Stock Options: Pause to Reload The FASB delays stock option expensing by six months. That's just more time for Big Tech to lobby.
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 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.
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?
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.
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?
InternetNews April 18, 2005 Roy Mark	Senator Backs Tech on Stock Options Legislator feels stock options shouldn't be expensed at all.
CFO August 1, 2003 Craig Schneider	Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2004 Tim Beyers	Yahoo! Goes Retro Shareholders bring back dot-com memories with a vote against options expensing.
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.
Entrepreneur November 2005 Scott Bernard Nelson	New Cop in Town Will new SEC chairman Christopher Cox set you free from regulation?
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 January 17, 2005	Too Many Ways To Expense Options Expensing stock options was supposed to provide a clear, consistent picture of earnings that can be compared across companies and industries. But that goal may now be fading.
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 September 1, 2006 Ronald Fink	Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance.
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.
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 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:
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration?
CFO October 1, 2003	Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate: Stock Option Expensing Likely Tech industry claims new accounting rules will hurt profits and cripple employee incentives.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Barry Rehfeld	Another Tough Top Cop? When President Bush tapped Christopher Cox to replace William Donaldson, it looked like Bush was swapping an aggressive reformer for a kinder, gentler regulator. Yet since he took over as SEC chairman, Cox has shown that he is not the anti-Donaldson.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2004 Tim Beyers	PeopleSoft's People Speak Up Shareholders deliver a wake-up call in voting for expensing options.
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
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Steve Hamm	Will Expensing Cost The U.S. Jobs? Tech execs claim new accounting rules requiring public companies to expense stock options could force them to send work overseas.
CFO August 1, 2007 Kate O'Sullivan	The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before.
Fast Company October 2005 Jennifer Reingold	Batter Up The Senate's confirmation hearing for Christopher Cox, the man named to run the world's most important financial regulatory body, was quite a softball game.
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 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.
InternetNews October 7, 2004 Roy Mark	Congress Still Hot on Tech Agenda The House and Senate are battling to session's end on new Internet access tax moratorium and blocking stock option expensing.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Bye-Bye, Stock Options Stock options may soon go the way of the dodo bird and saber-toothed tiger. Now that options aren't free, many companies are reining them in.
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.
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	Investors of the world, unite! Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street.
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.
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.
Registered Rep. July 24, 2008	SEC Versus Fed: Who Should Regulate Investment Banks? In the wake of the sub-prime crisis and near-collapse of Bear Stearns in mid-March, regulatory reform for investment banks has become a popular topic in Washington and on Wall Street.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Chris Mallon	Who'll Be Liable for Options? A new proposal adds a dynamic twist to expensing stock options.
CFO October 1, 2004 Tim Reason	Changing Fortunes: The 2004 Compensation Survey To be sure, stock options are not going away. But with those options tainted, pay packages grow more diverse -- and smaller.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2004 Bill Mann	Exhausting Every Option The International Employee Stock Option Coalition, a high tech industry lobbying group in Washington D.C., plays its latest gambit on trying to de-claw options expensing.
BusinessWeek December 3, 2007 Nanette Byrnes	Proxies: The SEC's Stopgap Solution Chairman Cox indicates he'll vote against shareholder access to corporate proxies, but the agency will revisit the issue next year.
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 June 15, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Good News Bear Bear Stearns defies expectations and posts a pretty solid quarter. With a current P/E of about 10, investors who think this company can maintain a long-term double-digit pace of growth might see these shares as a bargain today.
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.
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 Amy Borrus	The Unlikely Hardnose At The SEC Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox wants all CEO pay revealed.
CFO December 1, 2004	Getting Dumped Why Big Four auditors are dumping some small clients... Quiet periods could get a little noisier... The manufacturing sector gets a boost... Stock-option expensing goes back on the shelf... Questioning the accuracy of credit ratings... etc.
The Motley Fool January 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: WD-40 and Other Numbers Can the grease-meister slide out from under analyst estimates? Investors, take note.
InternetNews January 13, 2006 Clint Boulton	SEC is Probing IBM Earnings The Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into IBM's first-quarter 2005 accounting practices is now official.
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?
The Motley Fool June 15, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Bear Stearns Not in Hibernation Surprising strength in the fixed income business powered a strong quarter. However, investors may want to look elsewhere for a bargain.