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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.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate: Stock Option Expensing Likely Tech industry claims new accounting rules will hurt profits and cripple employee incentives.
CFO August 1, 2003 Craig Schneider	Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again.
InternetNews April 18, 2005 Roy Mark	Senator Backs Tech on Stock Options Legislator feels stock options shouldn't be expensed at all.
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.
InternetNews March 8, 2005 Roy Mark	U.S. Could Lose Tech Edge, TechNet Warns TechNet presented Capitol Hill with an innovation agenda to get back on the IT track it claims the U.S. is falling from.
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 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.
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.
InternetNews September 24, 2004 Roy Mark	Congress OKs Tech-Friendly R&D Tax Credit Technology consortium had pushed for the nearly $8 billion credits as key drivers for the industry. President Bush is expected to sign the legislation.
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.
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Roy Mark	R&D Tax Credit Nears Congressional Approval Legislation could give U.S. businesses almost $8 billion in tax credits with 75 percent devoted to employee wages.
CFO October 1, 2003	Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate.
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.
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.
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 March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration?
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 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 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.
Entrepreneur August 2004 Stephen Barlas	Out of Sight Stock options can stay off your balance sheet--for now. The Stock Option Accounting Reform Act seeks an economic impact study and provisions for small businesses.
BusinessWeek December 9, 2010 Yalman Onaran	An International Spat Over Bank Bookkeeping A dispute between the U.S. and international accounting standards boards is holding up a global agreement.
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.
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 April 26, 2004	How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings
Knowledge@Wharton	Will Expensing Stock Options Create New Problems? Even as politicians and the media vilify stock options, experts from Wharton and elsewhere are asking if the blame is being misdirected, and if the solutions being adopted might bring about new problems.
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 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 July 12, 2004 Chris Mallon	Who'll Be Liable for Options? A new proposal adds a dynamic twist to expensing stock options.
FDIC FYI July 24, 2002	Enhancing Financial Transparency Participants in the conference discussed the strengths and flaws inherent in the U.S. financial reporting process and suggested ways of modifying not only the reporting mechanism, but also the accounting standards that underlie financial statements, audit opinions, credit ratings and analyst reports.
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?
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 March 17, 2005 Seth Jayson	Options: The Choice of Californians and Crooks As we count down to stock option expensing time, expect to hear a lot of whining from options-happy CEOs. Remember, our stock markets depend on confidence in the clarity and accuracy of our firms' earnings reports.
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.
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.
Knowledge@Wharton	Feeling Burned by Accounting Scams in the U.S.? Just Look Overseas Self-dealing and the misappropriation of profits at the expense of minority shareholders is much more common in other countries due to the weaker legal measures protecting such stockholders.
CFO May 1, 2003 Arthur Levitt	You Are the Guardians Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt offers some pointed advice on how to restore confidence in corporate accounting.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Bill Mann	Intel's Red Herring Intel CEO spells doom and gloom if option expensing is mandatory. Please.
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 September 17, 2004 Seth Jayson	Boxer Begs Bush to Back Bum Bill Members of California's congressional team make one last effort to look good for the tech industry back home.
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 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.
Real Estate Portfolio Special Issue 2005 Yungmann & Agarwal	One World, One GAAP Global businesses and international investors are increasingly demanding accounting information that they can understand when running businesses and making investment decisions on a worldwide basis.
CFO	Full Disclosure Edmund Jenkins reflects on his leadership of FASB through difficult times...
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.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Joseph Rosta	FASB Waves Goodbye to "Qs" The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to eliminate the concept of qualified special purpose entities.
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.
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?
Knowledge@Wharton	You Say IASB, I Say FASB, You Say... A description of efforts to harmonize U.S. and international accounting standards, and shifts in the accounting profession caused by recent scandals.
CFO September 1, 2006 Ronald Fink	Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance.