U.S. companies ordered to expense options
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In a move that may be seen by some in corporate America as an early lump of coal in many Christmas stockings, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will require companies to report the cost of stock options in their financial statements beginning next year, it announced Thursday.
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The past few years have seen companies doing everything they can to reduce costs. From outsourcing and offshoring to RIFs (reductions in force), the byword has been, âCut expenses.â But if most of the economists are right, 2005 will be a much better year, and companies will go back to concentrating on increasing revenue.
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There is a multibillion-dollar gap between what public companies book as expenses for their executives' stock options and what they report to the IRS under two different sets of rules, according to Senate investigators and a key senator who is seeking to change the reporting system.
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American Tower Corp. , a Boston-based operator of broadcast and communications towers, said yesterday it will restate financials to correct accounting for past stock options grants. The company will file an amended 2005 annual report that includes consolidated financial statements for the 2003 through 2005 fiscal years, plus selected financial data from 2001 through 2005, reflecting stock options expenses and ...
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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 -- 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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An article last Sunday in the special Your Taxes report about tips for preparing a tax return referred incompletely to the limit on claims for refundable alternative minimum tax credits resulting from the exercise of incentive stock options. While it is $5,000 under one calculation method, some taxpayers may claim more than that under a second method if their income is not too high.
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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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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday took a step toward allowing foreign public companies to choose between filing data under international accounting standards and U.S. rules.
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American companies were granted a six-month delay Wednesday on the deadline for reporting the value of stock options granted to employees as an expense - a change that would delay the reduction in reported profits for many companies, particularly in the
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The group that sets US accounting rules decided yesterday to delay for six months its plan to force companies to treat stock option grants as immediate expenses.
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The nation&#39;s accounting rulemaker decided yesterday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, reining
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A California judge plans to order  Apple Inc  to turn over company board-meeting minutes  and records relating to stock options accounting to an  investor, according to a newspaper report on Tuesday.
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Oct. 18, 2004  Although accounting regulators have agreed to delay a contentious proposal that forces companies to deduct the cost of employee stock options as a business expense, Sen. Michael B. Enzi said Thursday, Oct.
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In a final statement on a stock-options rule, the Financial Accounting Standards Board says that companies must treat employee stock options as an expense on financial statements beginning in 2005.