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The Motley Fool June 16, 2004 Chris Mallon	Tech Execs Rake It In When it comes to equity-based compensation, not all employees get equal grants. My concern is with the disingenuous arguments from top executives that expensing or eliminating options will hurt the average employee.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Bill Mann	Intel's Red Herring Intel CEO spells doom and gloom if option expensing is mandatory. Please.
The Motley Fool September 3, 2004 Chris Mallon	Optional No Longer Expense-free option grants are a thing of the past, thanks to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new rule.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Chris Mallon	Who'll Be Liable for Options? A new proposal adds a dynamic twist to expensing stock options.
Knowledge@Wharton	New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options) A handful of technology companies are heading in alternative directions when it comes to giving employees incentives to stay and perform well.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2004 Seth Jayson	Intel's Options Ugliness Despite shareholder demands, Intel management continues to pretend that options cost nothing.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Stock Options Hurt U.S. Competitiveness The failure to expense stock options is causing distortions and inefficiencies in U.S. labor and capital markets.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2003 Traci Purdum	Expensing Stock Options Jeopardizes Competitiveness Intel Corp.'s Craig Barrett says stock options stimulate employees to benefit shareholders.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2004 Bill Mann	Cisco Jumps, Slips, Falls Cisco turned in good results. Too bad it needed greater than greater than great results.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Coalition of the Greedy CEOs are fighting to keep the stock options gravy train rolling at shareholders' expense. Three cheers for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which recently released its proposal to require companies to expense stock options.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Steve Hamm	Chambers: Stock Options Inspire Innovation John T. Chambers, chief executive officer of networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., is an outspoken critic of upcoming accounting rules requiring companies to expense stock options. In an interview, Chambers explains his position:
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Bill Mann	Yes, Options Really Are an Expense The Financial Accounting Standards Board stares down the tech lobby and mandates that employee stock options must be expensed.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2004 Seth Jayson	Intel May as Well Restate Earnings Employee stock options, which Intel feels aren't worth measuring on the income sheets, cost the chip maker almost 20% of last quarter's earnings.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2004	Where Stock Options Come From Learn the pros and cons of these controversial beasts.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Jeff Hwang	HP Out of Fantasy? Shareholders vote to expense stock options. As well they should.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Hof & Kerstetter	Earth To Silicon Valley: You've Lost This Battle If anyone thought tech executives might finally give up their long fight against counting employee stock options as an expense, a rally on June 24 quashed that notion. Here's why tech should end its fight against options expensing.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: Cisco Bear Cisco's generous stock-option grants and its reluctance to embrace option expensing signal that its executives view the company's shareholders more as their own personal piggy bank than as the true owners and ultimate beneficiaries of the company's success.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Matthew Crews	Nice: Stock-Option Expensing SFAS 123R is here. No longer do investors and analysts have to go back and forth adjusting the results for a comparison basis. Stock options will be expensed.
InternetNews January 13, 2006 Clint Boulton	SEC is Probing IBM Earnings The Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into IBM's first-quarter 2005 accounting practices is now official.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2004 Bill Mann	Stock Options: Pause to Reload The FASB delays stock option expensing by six months. That's just more time for Big Tech to lobby.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004	How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings
The Motley Fool December 28, 2004 Jim Schoettler	Uncovering the Billion-Dollar Secret Traditional stock option accounting practices lead companies to overstate their net income. Here is a look at how significant these overstatements are, who's responsible for fixing the problem, and what they're doing about it to place themselves and their investors in an advantageous position.
The Motley Fool November 23, 2004 Jim Schoettler	The Billion-Dollar Secret As the debate rages over whether or not companies should expense stock options, we take a look at some basic questions: Why should stock options be expensed?... What does it mean for the investor?... etc.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2005 Rich Smith	Cisco Gets a C Cisco gets at best a passing grade for its first-quarter earnings. The discrepancy between reported profits and actual cash generation appears to be getting worse. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Plenty of Options at Yahoo! The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decreed that companies must begin expensing options this June -- a move that will make many of us watch the options-friendly tech giants such as Yahoo!, where there may be some chilling impacts to earnings.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2006 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: SYSCO Rebuttal Someone is getting rich from Cisco's operations, but it's not the shareholders. The company, with a current market value of around $136 billion, has spent more than a fourth of that buying back its own stock. Still, it has more shares outstanding than it did a decade ago.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Rich Duprey	Intel's Option Plan: Only Half Right A better option-repricing strategy is still no good.
CFO August 1, 2003 Julia Homer	Days of Future Past A year after the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress has proposed a bill that undercuts the intent of the legislation.
The Motley Fool January 6, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: WD-40 and Other Numbers Can the grease-meister slide out from under analyst estimates? Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Steve Hamm	Will Expensing Cost The U.S. Jobs? Tech execs claim new accounting rules requiring public companies to expense stock options could force them to send work overseas.
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 David Henry	The Dirty Little Secret About Buybacks All those share repurchases are doing investors little good. Here's why.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2004 Rich Smith	Corporations Never Pay Taxes Just about everybody remains agog at news that U.S. companies aren't paying income tax.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2004 Bill Mann	Valley's Intellectual Bankruptcy Yesterday, the Financial Accounting Standards Board held a contentious roundtable in Palo Alto, Calif., to discuss FASB's standing proposal to require American companies to treat stock options granted to employees as an expense.
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003	Are Stock Options In Your Future? Given the recent turmoil surrounding stock options -- including well-publicized abuses of executive stock options, the depressed market, and anticipated new rules on the expensing of options -- has this once-popular form of compensation lost its appeal?
The Motley Fool November 8, 2006 Anders Bylund	Foolish Forecast: Challenges for Cisco The networking infrastructure powerhouse gets ready to report earnings for first-quarter 2007. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 Rich Smith	Dueling Fools: Cisco Bull Here's a cheaper-than-average tech heavyweight with far better-than-average prospects. Looks like a buy for investors.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Louis Lavelle	Time To Start Weighing The Options New Financial Accounting Standards Board rules make stock options an expense. How will companies cope?
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Seth Jayson	Options: The Choice of Californians and Crooks As we count down to stock option expensing time, expect to hear a lot of whining from options-happy CEOs. Remember, our stock markets depend on confidence in the clarity and accuracy of our firms' earnings reports.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2004 Bill Mann	The Best Stock Options Model Are there perfect ways to value stock options? No. But anything is better than this. What's the sign that the Financial Accounting Standards Board is thinking about requiring stock options to be expensed? Lots of trips to Washington by Silicon Valley executives, and pre-emptive bills in Congress. Certainly, someone up there recognizes that accounting is best left to accountants.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2004 Bill Mann	Exhausting Every Option The International Employee Stock Option Coalition, a high tech industry lobbying group in Washington D.C., plays its latest gambit on trying to de-claw options expensing.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Anders Bylund	Intel Does Repricing Right Tech giant Intel is planning a repricing scheme. But the chipmaker is taking several steps to avoid a firestorm of public backlash against this plan.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2004 Seth Jayson	Boxer Begs Bush to Back Bum Bill Members of California's congressional team make one last effort to look good for the tech industry back home.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Bill Mann	Aligning Interests? Yeah, Right Cisco's employees apparently can't sell their stock options fast enough. Suits the company just fine.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2004 Tim Beyers	Yahoo! Goes Retro Shareholders bring back dot-com memories with a vote against options expensing.
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Mike McNamee	Options Expensing Is Here To Stay Does the nomination of Christopher Cox to head the Securities & Exchange Commission mean that the stock option expensing requirement will be held at bay?
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Bill Mann	Silliness From Taser Taser granted 3.56 million options to employees through last year at an average strike price of $3.65, creating a head office that, out of 42 employees, has 28 millionaires, "with no cost to the company."
The Motley Fool May 11, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Cisco: Where's the Panache? Cisco is getting a handle on its inventory, but what can it really offer investors?
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Roy Mark	House Votes to Block Stock Option Expensing The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation supported by the tech industry to pre-empt a proposed federal accounting regulation calling for corporations to deduct the cost of all employee stock options from their profits.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2005 Matt Thurmond	Websense Options Expense Websense's current stock price is riskier than it seems at first glance. Earnings for 2004 would have been 43% lower after expensing options, falling from $26.2 million to $14.9 million.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2005 Tim Beyers	Show Me the Money, Steve! It's time for Apple to pay a dividend.