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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Accounting standards setters yesterday agreed to give companies six more months to comply with a plan that would require them to treat stock options as an expense, cheering both overburdened
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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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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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American companies claimed tax deductions for issuing their executives stock options that exceeded their reported costs by $43 billion in 2005, according to a Senate panel whose chairman wants to limit the tax savings.
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Bowing to corporate pressure, the group that sets standards for the US accounting industry yesterday postponed by six months its plan to force companies to expense employee stock options.
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The debate over whether companies should  treat stock options as an expense draws mixed reactions from Washington area businesses, some of which have a lot to lose if the accounting rule changes.
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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.
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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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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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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said that excessive regulation and burdensome litigation were prompting companies to choose to list their stock on foreign exchanges over American ones.
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Accounting regulators adopted rules on Thursday requiring publicly traded companies to treat the stock options they give to employees as normal business expenses.
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PARIS Stock option accounting has become an international battleground, but those wars may be nearing an end as major industrial countries move toward rules that force companies to deduct the value of options from their earnings.
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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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