Accounting Board Vote Gives Firms Time to Fight
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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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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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Accounting rule makers issued a standard Thursday that forces companies to expense employee stock options starting in June, ending 10 years of political wrangling and backpedaling.
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A battle between rival shareholder groups is brewing in advance of Friday&#39;s final deadline for tendering shares to Oracle in support of its $9bn hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.
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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 businesses and lobbyists trying to scuttle the plan.
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Regulators continue to revise an accounting rule criticized by business groups as overly expensive, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said yesterday, but an agreement remains days away.
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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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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 US Financial Accounting Standards Board agreed to delay by six months implementation of a rule that will force companies to treat employee stock options as an expense.
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The heads of the big three credit-rating companies and their critics will face off Tuesday in a Senate Banking Committee hearing, setting the stage for a regulatory battle over an industry that has eluded controls despite mounting concerns about conflicts of interest, aggressive business practices and a lack of competition and transparency.
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The International Accounting Standards Committee has been pressured by some European politicians who want the board to be more accountable to governments.
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Companies push back a deadline in the their trademark fight in hopes of achieving a settlement.
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Union members vote for two days of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts and longer shifts.
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Following the Contract Recognition Board&#39;s finding in favour of BAR, it is only a matter of time before the various &#39;interested parties&#39; begin legal action against those that they feel led them astray.
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Business & money: Bank's management faces hostile shareholder meeting amid signs fate is in the government's hands
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American companies have been granted a six-month reprieve on the deadline by which they must begin deducting from profits the value of stock options that they grant to executives and employees.
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Companies under $700 million market cap get Sarbanes-Oxley filing extension.