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Strategies & Market Trends : BEFRIEND THE TREND Short-term Options Trading Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChrisJP who wrote (939)	2/17/2002 7:45:20 PM
From: SusieQ1065	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4058

Chris, if these companies are forced to expense Employee Stock Options it will make a substantial difference in their bottom lines... add to that the FASB mandated changes in the 40 year rule for writing off goodwill... which will wreak havoc with Book Value.. example: WCOM has a Book Value of 55 Billion...50 Billion of which is Goodwill...now suddenly they have to take a charge on the whole thing in one fell swoop? not to mention anything else the SEC comes up with to placate the public post-Enron... well, it may not be pretty.