More IT firms afoul of stock options laws
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The practice of manipulating stock options grants to make them more favorable has come back to haunt yet another round of high-tech executives. A former Monster Worldwide Inc. executive is expected to agree to a plea deal in New York Thursday, just a day after the founder of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. pleaded guilty to a state felony related to backdating.
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The more stock options CEOs have, the more likely they are to take risky investments negatively affect their business.
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By Andrew Leckey  Like teenage drivers, technology firms can become more responsible with age.  In a stock market capable of sudden and severe collisions, investors may not want to take a tech ride without a seat belt.
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Companies must start expensing employee stock options in earnings statements next year, US accounting rule makers declared on Thursday, a move that could signal the end of a long-standing bookkeeping practice that many argued allowed
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In a strange anomaly to American securities laws, it is not clear that someone who illegally obtained insider information has broken the law by trading on that information.
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THE REGION Sapient Corp., a technology consulting company, said the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company's stock options granting practices. Sapient will cooperate fully with the commission, the Cambridge company said in a regulatory filing. Sapient said last month that an internal review of the practices had ended and found no misconduct.
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Dec-16-2004 - In a long-awaited and sure-to-be controversial move, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ruled yesterday that companies have to begin expensing for stock options given to employees as part of compensation packages.
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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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Every year, public companies put a number of questions before their stockholders for a vote. Investors weigh in on whether to reelect company directors, reappoint auditors, and approve or kill plans to give big stock option packages to senior executives.
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If ever there were a better self-propagating group of folks than lawyers I can't figure out who it would be. There have been many millions of dollars invested over the last few years because lawyers have decided to encroach on our little tech world. In the 90's the CIO moved from being a tech to being a finance guy. Tomorrow they might be a finance guy with a law degree
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting rules that govern listed companies are too much for Creative Technology, which has renewed plans to delist its shares from the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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The nation&#39;s accounting rulemaker decided Thursday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, a move cheered by shareholder advocates but scorned by many companies who rely heavily on options to
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Accounting standards setters yesterday issued a long-awaited plan requiring companies to treat stock options as expenses on their books, even as lobbyists vowed to derail the initiative before it takes effect in June.
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If a company is losing more money, you may still want to invest.
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Options, options, options -- when will the madness end?
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Accounting regulators adopted rules yesterday requiring publicly traded companies to treat the stock options they give to employees as normal business 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