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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (145621)	8/16/2002 9:10:49 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

I do not know their reasoning but your explanation works for me. There was so much discussion here about the effect of expensing stock options. Amazon does get the record as having options being a higher part of expense according to this table when compared to the other firms. In fact, this would almost double Amazon's losses. I can't say I know how they were calculated nor do I really want to debate the expensing of options;-) online.wsj.com Edit. There an explanation of how these were calculated: "**Calculations come from the companies' data. Most use the Black-Scholes formula, which links the value of an option to such variables as the current share price, the exercise price, expected volatility in share prices and expected dividends. "