Accounting for Stock Options Today's accounting rules for stock options make up the most powerful tool available for manipulating earnings. Stock options accounting is the 800-pound gorilla lurking in every discussion of accounting reform taking place right now: Everyone knows that the issue is too big to ignore, yet everyone worries that a serious fix would take down the entire technology sector and perhaps more than that. According to current accounting rules, companies that issue …showed first 75 words of 473 total…

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