expensing

The expensing of management stock options is probably coming, and that will not be free.

Accounting rule makers are expected to require the expensing of options beginning next year.

Stock option expensing was a controversy well before the most recent set of controversies in the early 2000s.

"Our members feel strongly about increasing expensing," he said.

The vote represented a symbolic victory for those advocating the expensing of options.

Businesses have access to the expensing and the depreciation, so there is a lot of stimulus."

Allow for immediate expensing of capital equipment for businesses.

Depreciation is the expensing of an asset over its estimated useful life to reflect wear and tear.

The aide asserted that the capital gains tax break would have helped only the rich, and added, "Expensing has been raised by 50 percent.

He suggested that he would not reopen the debate over the expensing of stock options given to executives.

By proposing to allow full expensing in 2011, the White House has adopted this Republican proposal.

But he said, "We would not have any concern about a formal accounting policy that would mandate the expensing of stock options."

In contrast, those who want to obliterate the use of stock options by making them prohibitively expensive usually champion expensing.

He has also been very vocal against the expensing of stock options, and has twice disobeyed shareholder requests to do so.

This is the main reason that experts, who overwhelmingly favor required expensing of options, say a new rule by itself would only begin to solve the problem.

Over the anguished opposition of managements, they are voting this spring at annual meetings for the expensing of options.

WITH the expensing of stock options looming, the professors fear that companies will cut lower-level employees from option plans.

Along with other companies, Brocade signed a letter to members of Congress in July 2003 that argued against the expensing of options.

But the first issue you're going to face - and one that has the potential to set the tone for your chairmanship - is the expensing of stock options.

In April 2004, Hastings published a Wall Street Journal op-ed advocating the expensing of stock options.

The expensing of options under the current method would bring more confusion to financial reporting because there is no accurate method of valuing options.

"I will continue to advocate that we should not do expensing," Andy D. Bryant, Intel's chief financial officer, told wire service reporters after the meeting.

The 1981 Act encouraged economic growth to the slumping economy by reducing individual income tax rates, permitting the expensing of business investments, and increasing incentives for individual savings.

In 1994, Silicon Valley used similar arguments to derail the FASB's attempt to require the expensing of stock options.

Nor did it project the effect on its earnings, except for the expensing of stock options, which it said would subtract 18 cents a share from profits this calendar year.