Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

CFO August 1, 2003 Craig Schneider	Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again.
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 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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 July 12, 2004 Chris Mallon	Who'll Be Liable for Options? A new proposal adds a dynamic twist to expensing stock options.
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 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.
InternetNews January 7, 2005 Roy Mark	Stumping For Telecom Reform at CES Telecom reformers will barnstorm the Consumer Electronics Show -- not for votes, but for help shaping telecom policy.
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 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.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate: Stock Option Expensing Likely Tech industry claims new accounting rules will hurt profits and cripple employee incentives.
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 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.
Registered Rep. March 11, 2010 Kristen French	Dodd to Introduce Financial Regulatory Overhaul Bill Monday, without Republican Support He's still hopeful that negotiations with Republican Senators will prove successful.
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.
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 April 21, 2004 Bill Mann	Silliness From Taser Taser granted 3.56 million options to employees through last year at an average strike price of $3.65, creating a head office that, out of 42 employees, has 28 millionaires, "with no cost to the company."
The Motley Fool May 20, 2004 Seth Jayson	Intel's Options Ugliness Despite shareholder demands, Intel management continues to pretend that options cost nothing.
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.
Chemistry World November 12, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Republican gains may spur US chemical rules reform Now that Republicans control both the House of Representatives and the Senate momentum is building to reform the nation's 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act, according to chemical industry groups.
CFO October 1, 2003	Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2004 Chris Mallon	Nasdaq Snoozing Nasdaq investors had a great year in 2003, as the index soared 50% from start to finish. From its post-bubble low of 1,114, the composite index has nearly doubled, topping out recently at 2,153.83
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.
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.
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 March 1, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Options: A Modest Proposal Why not expense part of the cost at grant and the rest at expiration?
CFO February 1, 2003 Julia Homer	Rule-makers The stage is set for a major shift in accounting practice.
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.
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.
CFO January 1, 2008 Sarah Johnson	Long Live the King? As international accounting standards close in on GAAP, the U.S. standard-setter considers its mortality.
AFP eWire January 21, 2015	Tax Reform Efforts Starting in Congress The Charitable Giving Coalition has sent a letter to new members of Congress encouraging them to preserve the full scope and value of the charitable deduction.
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006	A New Abacus For Pensions The Financial Accounting Standards Board rules on post-retirement accounting are changing. Benefits could suffer.
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%.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2004 Tim Beyers	Yahoo! Goes Retro Shareholders bring back dot-com memories with a vote against options expensing.
Entrepreneur August 2004 C.J. Prince	Raise Your Voice A new Small Business Advisory Committee promises to give small businesses a say in accounting standards. But will it help?
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.
CFO October 1, 2007 Michelle Leder	Rewriting the Rules Everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile? This is the third of a three-part series examining the state of accounting five years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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.
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.
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.
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 May 17, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	61 Senators Perpetuate "Too Big To Fail" Unfortunately, the Senate hasn't fixed the underlying problem that gives rise to bailouts: "too big to fail."
U.S. Banker March 2009 Joseph Rosta	FASB Hesitates, SEC Stands Still on Fair Value The banking industry wins a minor skirmish in the fair value war when the Financial Accounting Standards Board turned down a proposed amendment that would have expanded controversial fair value/mark-to-market practices in the financial sector.
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.