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To: Ali Chen who wrote (74161)10/6/1999 3:43:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 1572384
 
Ail - My Little ScrewDriver Buddy !

Re: "Those options are not vested and therefore are not
exercisable, and cannot be booked by any reasonable
standard. In reality you probably be better off by
counting the average value of optiions that were
granted 5 years ago and are exercised at $3-$4 range.
Even here I am much sure these money are booked is
income somewhere :)"

Sounds like a REAL JEALOUS STREAK you have for those with Stock Options !

Why don't you grant yourself a few options on new screwdrivers (or old ones, for that matter) and see what it's like.

Then it won't feel so bad when your customers keep ordering Intel CPUs in their machines.

Paul



To: Ali Chen who wrote (74161)10/6/1999 12:25:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin  Respond to of 1572384
 
There's no royal road to accounting standards. My post endeavored to uncover what I consider to be a fair expense to charge for employee stock options grants, currently missing from income statements across the land. Smithers's method is an alternative, with which I disagree, as I do with your views on unvested options.

This subject has been hashed out ad nauseam by me and others on boards all over SI; you'll forgive me for not treading that ground again.

-mb