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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rkral who wrote (72017)	8/2/2002 9:52:12 AM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

And you expect me to respond to the substance of your post? no, i didn't expect it, because you never have responded to the substance of the subject, why start now, to respond to the substance of a post...appears to be the furthest thing from your intention... again...... "the point is that once you use this newer way of calculating earnings, the use of only the "Treasury Stock method" to calculate earnings no longer shows accurate EPS.." are you going to deny this? by the way, my statement above means the same thing without those apparently offending spelled out words. the term "fully" or "diluted" adds nothing to what is important to the subject we are discussing.... again.... here is what is important..... and lets see where you really are coming from.... lets see if you understand what the subject really is........ lets get to brass tacs here..... is it your contention that FASB 123's option to expense ESO's in earnings calcs or using any other "fair market value" method doesn't change a company's earnings report? what is important here is why MSFT refuses to be a leader and expense options..... they will not bring this FASB rule 123 to their earnings reported to the street because they know that their Diluted earnings per share takes a huge hit..... not one penny not two pennies, but eventually 30%..... if someone were to have more sense than Howe, they would realize that MSFT would be all over this if the hit really only turned out to be one penny or two....... they won't jump on board because they know exactly what would happen, where most investors do not..... that is the point, that is the brass tacs...... investors are being mislead..... my argument is that about Two companies a day are switching the way they account for stock options, and eventually MSFT will be forced to..... that is the point, that is the brass tacs...... if you really wanted people to know what is going on, tell us how MSFT is going to escape this avalanche of companies switching to the more accurate "fair value method" of reporting their earnings.......... jon.