SEC targets options timing guidelines in summer
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The U.S. Securities and  Exchange Commission aims to issue guidelines on the appropriate  timing for companies to issue stock options this summer when it  proposes new rules dealing with executive compensation, SEC  Chairman Christopher Cox said on Monday.
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Cisco Systems Inc. , Genentech Inc. , and Qualcomm Inc. will present accounting rule makers with a revised method to expense stock options that would cut the cost to companies about 70 percent, a lawyer for the companies said.
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The wit who dubbed August "the dog days of summer" could have been looking at 2004's tech stocks in his crystal ball. Just what is ailing these critters? Let's look at all of the possible explanations. Perhaps by eliminating the foolish and transient we can discover a theme and pick up some bargains.
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The independent body charged with setting US accounting standards on Thursday gave hard deadlines for companies to treat stock options as expenses in financial statements.
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Heads up: From the summer doldrums to the September doldrums. Don&#39;t get your hopes up that the stock market will spike up until oil prices come back down and the presidential election is decided, the Stock Trader&#39;s Almanac advises.
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BEIJING, Aug.18 (Xinhuanet) -- The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may revise its rules on initial stock offerings to modernize 1930s-era guidelines, agency commissioners and staff said.
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Tips from a Weitz Funds analyst on valuing cyclical stocks.
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It is back to business for U.S.  initial public offerings and time to see if the market for new  issues can pull out of its end-of-summer slump.
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WASHINGTON -- A group of technology companies Tuesday renewed pressure on accounting rule makers to drop a stock-options expensing rule, unveiling an alternative that they say is easier and less expensive to adopt.
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NORWALK, Conn. - Accounting rulemakers, pressed by both businesses and regulators, on Wednesday decided to give public companies six more months to adopt a new standard for deducting from profits the value of stock options.
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U.S. banking regulators plan to  issue eagerly awaited guidance on the subprime mortgage market  as early as Thursday afternoon, two sources familiar with the  matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Conrad W. Hewitt, chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, sought yesterday to clarify the proper accounting for backdated options, reserving the harshest accounting for companies that followed a practice of reducing the exercise price after options were issued.
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WASHINGTON --(Business Wire)-- Oct. 13, 2004 -- The following is a statement from William T. Archey, President and CEO of AeA, in response to FASB&#39;s decision to delay implementation of the stock options expensing rule:
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Wall Street&#39;s dog days of August have the potential for a serious bite this year. August is traditionally slow for investment bankers, fund managers and traders on Wall
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After an extended summer vacation, Wall Street is expected to get back to its normal energetic pace this week with the release of August consumer price and retail sales reports.
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Accounting standards setters Thursday issued a plan requiring companies to treat stock options as expenses, while lobbyists vowed to derail the initiative.
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Accounting rule-makers approved plans Thursday forcing companies to expense employee stock options by the middle of 2005, a long-anticipated move that opponents say won&#39;t be the last word on the issue.