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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 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? |
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 |
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 Sasha Franger |
An Easier Way to Track Mutual Funds' Expense Ratio Each year Lipper produces its "Quick Guide to Fund Expenses." The report consists of a single table displaying the asset-weighted average and average total expense ratios by load-type, fund type, and Lipper classifications/objectives. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Tom Roseen |
Performance Drags: A Curse To Wealth Accumulation Loads, expenses and taxes can have a significant impact on fund returns over the long haul. |
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 April 19, 2004 Tergesen & Young |
Index Funds Aren't All Equal High costs and managers who hold cash too long -- or pay inflated commissions -- can shave returns. So it pays to compare |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money Despite Higher Fees A low fee isn't everything. |
CFO August 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland |
Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed. |
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle |
Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration? |
Entrepreneur June 2005 Crystal Detamore-Rodman |
Taking Stock Minimize the costs of new stock-option expensing rules. |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Billy Fisher |
Well Done, WellPoint The health-care company posts solid quarterly results. The company's large, consistent share repurchases are a positive trend for shareholders. |
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Jane Sasseen |
Stock Options: Old Game, New Tricks Companies are finding ways to lower options costs despite stricter rules. |
BusinessWeek October 23, 2006 Jane Sasseen |
Master Of The Options Universe Chipmaker Analog Devices appears to have used every trick in the book. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2004 |
Alternatives to Index Funds Is it cheaper to choose exchange-traded funds over traditional index funds? |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Bill Mann |
House Meddles in FASB Matters The House of Representatives moves to block the independence of America's top accountants. |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Navjot Kaur |
UBS Joins the Long Cost-Cutting Line UBS cuts 3,500 jobs to stay profitable. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 |
Picking the Best Mutual Fund Past performance is what other investors earned. Current expenses are what you'll pay. |
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. |
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 Laurie Bassi |
Invest In People The outdated nature of accounting exacerbates a chronic tendency among U.S.-based, publicly traded companies to invest too little in employee skills. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen |
Hidden Measures How did U.S. stocks perform versus U.S. equity mutual funds last year? The market-cap bias in measuring stock returns tends to obscure the true return picture. |
Entrepreneur October 2006 Julie Moline |
Done Deal Travel expense reports are getting a little less expensive to produce. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
You're Paying How Much? With mutual funds, you usually get what you don't pay for. |
The Motley Fool September 3, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
This Fund Charges What? Pay attention to the expense ratios of your funds, or pay too much. |
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. |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Fees Count in ETFs, Too Keep looking at fees in your funds and seek out low ones. A slightly lower fee can make a world of difference to your bottom line. |
BusinessWeek November 6, 2008 Ben Levisohn |
The Outlook for Black Gold Oil greases the wheels of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Here are three forecasts for this index. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen |
Economies of Scale? As mutual fund assets rise, expense ratios are supposed to fall -- but do they? |
BusinessWeek July 14, 2010 Whitney Kisling et al. |
The Numbers Say Tech Stocks Are Cheap The tech's average p-e ratio is as low as it's been in two decades. |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman |
You're Paying How Much? With mutual funds, you usually get what you don't pay for. When it comes to gauging a fund's prospects, few attributes have more predictive power than the expense ratio. |
BusinessWeek June 5, 2006 Nanette Byrnes |
You May Be Liable For That Lease The Financial Accounting Standards Board review of lease accounting standards could really hammer retailers. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Sasha Franger |
The Ups and Downs of Money Market Funds Money market funds traditionally have been both a safe vehicle for investors to store money and important to the economy because they generate short-term capital. |
BusinessWeek July 24, 2006 Jane Sasseen |
Ta-Da! Cheaper Stock Options! Companies are tinkering with the formulas they use to value them. |
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. |
BusinessWeek January 29, 2007 David Henry |
Not Everyone Hates SarbOx SarbOx and related reforms have produced much more reliable corporate financial statements, which investors rely on when deciding whether to buy or sell shares. For them, SarbOx has been a godsend. |
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? |
Investment Advisor February 2010 Vaughan Scully |
The ETF Advisor: S&P 500 ETFs While some S&P 500 Index funds are virtually identical to the SPDR fund, a handful of other ETFs offers more substantial modifications to the original formula. |
PHONE+ May 4, 2009 William Bosco |
Lease Accounting: Changes the IT Industry Should Know The FASB and its sister organization, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), are working jointly to develop a new model for the recognition of assets and liabilities arising under lease contracts. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Adrienne Carter |
Mutual Funds: Why Fees Still Defy Gravity Investors are seeking answers about why annual fees are assessed when fund company assets have increased. Now regulators want to know, too. |
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 Borrus & Dwyer |
Pumped-Up Pension Plays? U.S. regulators are investigating how some companies tinker with retiree accounting. |
AskMen.com Nate Steere |
Expense Account Dos & Don'ts Expense accounts aren't scary, and if you follow a few simple rules, your expenses can remain headache free. |
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Bill Mann |
Intel's Red Herring Intel CEO spells doom and gloom if option expensing is mandatory. Please. |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2007 Emil Lee |
Quick Accounting Basics: Depreciation Investors, there are many different types of depreciation techniques, but the vast majority of companies use the simple straight-line depreciation method. |
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 October 30, 2009 |
Microsoft Axes Office Accounting Software What will Microsoft's Office Accounting users do now that the company will soon kill off the product? |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2010 Susan H. Nadler |
Mind the GAAP What advantages does the income-tax basis accounting method offer? |
PC Magazine April 13, 2009 Kathy Yakal |
Outright.com New player Outright.com offers the smallest businesses free financial services in a slick package. |
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. |