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To: GST who wrote (160017)	3/31/2004 1:09:59 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) of 164684

if the employee can't walk away from the company with any value of those options (as is the case when you value them at grant) then you really can't call them compensation. I know we have discussed this before and there is no need to rehash this now, but imo this issue of calling something an expense when the recipient cannot receive any value is the fly in the expensing ointment and pro-expensers should just let this one go. You can't really win this argument claiming something is compensation but not available as a form of compensation to the grantee at the same time. I suspect this issue gets skirted with a "options must be expensed" requirement with no guidelines.

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