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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (160021)	3/31/2004 1:36:46 PM
From: SI Dave	Respond to of 164684

>>I suspect this issue gets skirted with a "options must be expensed" requirement with no guidelines. There will be guidelines, subject to broad interpretation and implementation. It's a much bigger can of worms than even off-balance sheet debt.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (160021)	3/31/2004 3:42:29 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

You can pay people with lottery tickets that otherwise could be purchased at a local convenience store. If the convenience store sells a ticket for $10 then the value of each ticket for compensation purposes could also be set at $10 per ticket. It would make no difference from an expensing point of view whether or not anybody who was paid in lottery tickets ever won. The compensation impact is not from the winning, it is from the opportunity cost of giving away lottery tickets that could otherwise be sold.