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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (32)	12/10/2001 7:22:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 445

I think that it is a bigger deal that companies do not have their earnings reduced no matter how much they pay for buybacks When dealing with buybacks of granted options it in a sense seems to be a delayed payment of the cost of compensation. But I'm not sure that they should require share buy backs to count against earnings. If I remember correctly when a company issues a dividend it doesn't count against earnings. If I'm wrong about that then maybe it does make a bit more sense to count buy backs against earnings. But I'm not sure how far you want the thread to diverge in to discussing account rules. Tim