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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 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 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 March 31, 2004 Bill Mann	FASB: Ready to Rumble The Financial Accounting Standards Board announces it intends to require companies to expense stock options.
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 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.
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 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.
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 April 12, 2004 Salim Haji	Higher Pay and Lower Taxes Results from two new studies: corporate CEOs continue to get pay raises, and most corporations pay little or no taxes.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2004 Tim Beyers	Intel Tripped Up The chip maker misses estimates, but it's much ado about nothing.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2004 Seth Jayson	Intel May as Well Restate Earnings Employee stock options, which Intel feels aren't worth measuring on the income sheets, cost the chip maker almost 20% of last quarter's earnings.
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 April 16, 2004 Rich Smith	DoubleClick's Pinched Penny Rounding earnings per share can lay traps for unwary investors. Online advertiser DoubleClick becomes a good lesson in why it is best to think of those little ticker symbols scrolling by as pieces of companies rather than little ticker symbols.
The Motley Fool March 5, 2004 Tim Beyers	Intel Insomnia The chip maker says first-quarter sales will meet the low end of estimates.
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.
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 September 3, 2004 Tim Beyers	Intel Swings, Misses The chip maker lowers estimates again on weak demand from consumers. Investors punish shares by more than 7%.
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.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2004 Bill Mann	Buffett Rips Congress on Options Why just counting the options given to the top five execs is a dumb, dumb idea.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Matthew Crews	Nice: Stock-Option Expensing SFAS 123R is here. No longer do investors and analysts have to go back and forth adjusting the results for a comparison basis. Stock options will be expensed.
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 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 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 April 15, 2004 Rich Smith	Texas Instruments Stands Out The chip maker distinguishes itself with solid Q1 results.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2004 Chris Mallon	Tech Execs Rake It In When it comes to equity-based compensation, not all employees get equal grants. My concern is with the disingenuous arguments from top executives that expensing or eliminating options will hurt the average employee.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Selena Maranjian	A Daring but Doomed Proposal What if shareholders decided how companies spent their money?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Tim Beyers	Intel: Flaws Inside Intel's specialty chips are subject to a manufacturing flaw, forcing a recall.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2004 John S. McClenahen	FASB Options Rule Draws Rants, Raves Manufacturing and tech trade associations attack the FASB proposed rule changes for booking stock options and other share-based payments.
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration?
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 Tim Beyers	Veritas Vilified The storage software maker missed estimates. Investors took the news hard, sending the stock lower by more than 35%.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Ben McClure	Reading the Tech Bellwether Following a week that saw more than one tech earnings warning, many investors are starting to worry that tech spending, after two strong quarters, is winding down. That worry is pushing down tech stock prices.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2004 Bill Mann	Cisco Jumps, Slips, Falls Cisco turned in good results. Too bad it needed greater than greater than great results.
InternetNews July 13, 2004 Paul Shread	Intel Fails To Inspire Intel did little to soothe investors' fears about a slowdown in tech spending after the close on Tuesday... Juniper blows past estimates... Red Hat plunges 23%... PeopleSoft, Lucent, Nortel, Infosys surge...
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 March 25, 2009 Rich Duprey	Intel's Option Plan: Only Half Right A better option-repricing strategy is still no good.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2004 Seth Jayson	Intel's Options Ugliness Despite shareholder demands, Intel management continues to pretend that options cost nothing.
InternetNews July 12, 2004 Paul Shread	Investors Look To Intel Investors will be looking to Intel to rescue chip stocks after Merrill Lynch downgraded the sector on Monday.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2004 Tim Beyers	EMC's Enviable Encore The storage maker's stellar quarter leaves you longing to invest but also aware of the risks.
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 May 24, 2004 Tim Beyers	Yahoo! Goes Retro Shareholders bring back dot-com memories with a vote against options expensing.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2004 Richard Gibbons	Tech Stocks Not Worth the Risk The technology sector might look promising, but prudent investors should take a second look. Some investors swoon over technology's potential, but they might be overlooking some very real problems in the sector.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2003 Traci Purdum	Expensing Stock Options Jeopardizes Competitiveness Intel Corp.'s Craig Barrett says stock options stimulate employees to benefit shareholders.
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.
InternetNews July 14, 2004 Paul Shread	AMD Meets, Apple Beats Apple Computer continued its winning ways after the close on Wednesday, but Advanced Micro didn't do much to bolster confidence in the chip sector.
CFO August 1, 2003 Craig Schneider	Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again.