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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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BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Anne Tergesen	Those Options Could Cost You The executives responsible for backdating employee stock options are in big trouble, facing everything from shareholder lawsuits and tax audits to possible jail time. But now innocent employees who received certain kinds of options may get caught in the snare, too.
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 John Nersesian	Weigh Your Options Employee stock options are difficult to understand. Clients need your help to manage them effectively. Advisers who develop expertise in this area can attract and retain significant relationships with executives.
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 January 16, 2007 Rich Duprey	Is Backdating Really So Bad? Is repricing options really a crime, or simply a mild accounting gimmick? However, backdating stock options carries a real cost to shareholders.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2005 John S. McClenahen	CEO Pay: The New Rules For CEOs and other senior executives in manufacturing, performance-related bonuses are up and performance-tied long-term incentives are more common. But will they make for better management decisions? That's not yet clear.
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.
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.
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 January 2, 2007 Rich Duprey	Apple's Rotting Core? Although the computer maker absolved its CEO of wrongdoing, should investors be so lenient?
The Motley Fool July 12, 2007 Rich Duprey	Backdating Boredom It seems everyone from investors to the justice system is tiring of the stock options scandal.
Knowledge@Wharton April 9, 2003	Stock Option Repricing: Employees Benefit But What about Investors? A paper written by Wharton accounting professor Mary Ellen Carter and Luann J. Lynch, a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business, examines the relationship between repricing underwater stock options and retaining employees.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Lewis Braham	Options: Have An Exit Plan Grants are part of your overall portfolio, so you need a clear strategy for selling.
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.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Rich Duprey	Intel's Option Plan: Only Half Right A better option-repricing strategy is still no good.
Financial Advisor April 2006 Eric L. Reiner	Ins And Outs Of Restricted Stock Two varieties of restricted securities are flowering, aiding executives, business owners -- and now investors. Here's what financial advisors need to know about restricted stock units.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Dueling Fools: Stock Options Bear Companies will have to scale back on exercising new grants or knock down their paychecks. Stock options, that wonderful concept on paper, has been abused badly by compensation committees. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Nanette Byrnes	Beyond Options However you slice it, the new mix will cost companies more
The Motley Fool January 18, 2007 Rich Duprey	A Monster of a Problem Prosecutors scrutinize the job search site over stock-option backdating allegations. What does it mean to investors?
Financial Advisor May 2004 Marla Brill	Employee Stock Options Planning Remains Confusing Advisors must contend with potentially complex tax and retirement issues
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 January 17, 2007 Rich Duprey	Digital River Bound for Rough Waters? The e-commerce outsource provider may have lurking backdating concerns. Investors, take note.
CFO December 1, 2006 Don Durfee	Pay Daze Linking pay to performance is harder than it looks. Companies that consider linking equity awards to performance should prepare to dig in for deeper computations of the compensation's fair value.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Extreme Greed Ariba executives fleece shareholders. Shareholders who have stayed with this software company and believed in its long-term potential have now watched management take a do-over on a portion of their past compensation that didn't work out as management desired.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2007 Rich Duprey	McAfee Orders a Recount The security software maker reprices backdated stock options. The total cost to McAfee -- and shareholders -- is currently unknown.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 William A. Jacobson	Deferred Compensation. Whose Money Is It? Deferred compensation plans offer incentives or income tax deferral while motivating the employee to remain at the company. However, the Citigroup Capital Accumulation Plan is facing legal challenges from class action suits in several states.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 Rich Duprey	Backdating Scandals Enter Final Lap The sentencing of Brocade's CEO shows that the race is almost run -- and shareholders have lost.
Financial Advisor April 2005 Bruce W. Fraser	Taking Stock of Options For financial advisors and clients alike, the big questions have always been when and how to exercise options. Timing is everything for realizing gains and avoiding tax liabilities.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2006 Anders Bylund	Options Inquiry Weighs on Openwave A beleaguered cell-phone software maker faces lawsuits for wrongs as-yet unproven. For now, investors must wait and see what the internal and external investigations find in Openwave's books.
The Motley Fool January 6, 2012 Evan Niu	Does It Pay to Be Apple's CEO? Apple CEO Tim Cook has a big payday coming soon.
Registered Rep. July 9, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Score One For Smith Barney In Cap Plan Hearings A superior court judge in California has ruled for Smith Barney in a case related to a deferred compensation plan that has been the subject of several lawsuits from brokers who formerly worked for the firm. The court said the CAP is not unlawful and does not violate labor laws.
Entrepreneur November 2009	Candid Talk About Stock Options Companies are clear: Stock options may not gain value. But employees still expect them. A burned senior VP at a big bank says just to cut her a bonus check.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2006 Rich Duprey	UnitedHealth's CEO Weighs His Options As one of the prime beneficiaries of the backdating scandal, the insurer's CEO decides to step down. It's a nice gesture, but a little hollow at this point.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2006 Anders Bylund	SEC's Positively Foolish Option Accounting Rules New SEC rules may put a stop to backdating scandals.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2004 Seth Jayson	IBM's Options Upgrade Options-based compensation for executives is rife with opportunities to fatten management wallets at the expense of shareholders Big Blue leads the way with a new and improved stock option plan.
InternetNews October 4, 2006 David Needle	Jobs Knew of Backdating Apple Computer released results today of an investigation into the backdating of stock option grants, saying it found that CEO Steve Jobs was aware of the practice.
The Motley Fool February 14, 2007 Rich Duprey	Backdating Al Capone Tax bills will be due soon in the options backdating scandal that will likely sink many executives. In addition to misrepresenting to the IRS the real profits earned, backdating also misrepresents the true cost of stock options to shareholders.
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 January 23, 2004 Bill Mann	Mighty Microsoft Microsoft's earnings dropped 17%. Worried? Don't be, as the change was largely due to Microsoft switching from granting its employees stock options to granting them restricted stock, which is accounted for differently.
Bio-IT World November 14, 2003 Michael Greeley	Show You the Money Venture capitalists need to balance two, at times conflicting, parameters when considering compensation for the executives at biotech companies in their portfolios: cash and long-term equity incentives.
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Louis Lavelle	The CEOs' Gravy Train May Be Drying Up Finally, boards are reining in executive pay and tying it more to performance.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2006 Philip Durell	An Open Letter to UnitedHealth's Chairman The possibility of the backdating of stock options has cast a shadow over the company's long-term outperformance. Investors, take note.
HBS Working Knowledge October 25, 2006 Desai & Margolis	Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts, where the practice of backdating options for top executives is only part of the problem.
InternetNews April 24, 2007 Michael Hickins	SEC Charges Former Apple Attorney With Fraud SEC levies fraud charges at Apple's former general counsel and settles with its former CFO in connection with a stock options backdating scandal.
CFO Andrew Osterland	Opting for Stock Options Multinationals are still choosing to offer options. They just need to be tailored to local tastes...
CFO November 1, 2003 David M. Katz	The Price They're Paid Even without stock options, top finance chiefs are changing in hefty pay packages.
InternetNews August 23, 2006 Clint Boulton	Sympathy For Stock Option Backdaters? Whatever you want to call the chowder pot of stock option backdating cases, it still boils down to sketchy accounting.
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Louis Lavelle	A Payday For Performance Compensation is less outrageous this year, except for CEOs who delivered. Our survey of 367 CEO pay packages showed that: Total CEO pay was up smartly, to an average $9.6 million... CEO raises and total pay once again dwarfed those of the average worker... etc.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2006 Rich Duprey	Altera Backpedals on Backdating Options backdating forces the programmable chip maker to restate 10 years of financials. Investors, beware.