Tech is running out of optionsOptions not an expense...I would like someone to explain to me how giving someone the right to buy stock from a general pool at a certain price is an expense for a company. Expenses are items that take away from gross revenues to produce the...
House debates stock option billMoney doesn't grow on trees'"The notion that stock options are an expense is absolutely absurd," said Rep. David Dreier, 'Major corps like Coke already expense options, are they absurd? 'Stock options "align the employee interest with the company interest, and that produces a motivated worker,".'The FASB...
House panel: Don't fiddle with stock optionsPolitically correct accountingThe concept of expensing stock options makes no sense. Stock options affect the value of the stock but NOT the financial results of the company.It appears that the Financial Accounting Standards Board is creating another accounting disaster which destroys the comparability...
Intel shareholders vote to expense optionsFASB has studied this for years"We believe this is a deeply flawed method of accounting that will diminish the accuracy and clarity of our financial reporting and could cause real economic harm to Intel, our stockholders, and our economy," How about you put it as...
As expected Oracle yanked its $6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems. The big question is where BEA goes from here. The Oracle-BEA saga has been plagued with back and forth letters in recent days. Oracle offered $17 a share for BEA. BEA said it wants $21. Oracle...
Cynthia Rettig's the Trouble with Enterprise Software, published in MIT Sloan Management Review should come as no surprise to those used to commenting on ERP implementations. Ms Rettig draws a gloomy picture asserting that: Whole systems march in lock step, providing synchronized, fully coordinated supply chains, production lines and services,...
XML has always been perfect for open source development.As an evolving standard, the tags which can represent anything need cooperation in order to be useful. Early efforts like adXML applied the technology to specific types of business transactions, in the ad space.But business processes are more complex than any set...
Relief from Sarbanes-Oxley on the way?Whats the problem?SOX for dummies:301, Independant auditors have to be independant.302, CFO & CEO have to state the accounts are not bogus.303, Company execs not allowed to coerce or bully independant auditors.304, If officers get a bonus based on false accounts they have to pay...
Business inaction could lead to data privacy lawsProblem is, government efforts are always worseNo matter how poorly the private sector may be doing, the government will alway do worse.The problem with this article is the presumption that government can do better which it cannot, and that it doesn't screw things...
BASDA is the representative body for 250 of the largest software developers in the world. This white paper provides the definitive reference for the implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standard IFRS in business systems. The International Accounting Standards Board IASB has issued a wide range of International Accounting Standards...
While U.S. businesses wait to see which way the Senate will swing on the House of Representatives' stand against the expensing of stock options except for top paid execs and a proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board hangs in limbo, Cisco isn't wasting any time to see how things turn out. On Monday, Aug 23,...
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