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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (178429)	6/27/2004 7:48:26 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

I and others here think that cost [value of an employee strock option] is "lost opportunity" and shouldn't be expensed, at least not at time of Grant. You've said this repeatedly and it indicates that either you don't understand accounting or you don't understand the FASB proposal. "Time of grant" is an instant, not a period, and no one has ever suggested expensing the option at that instant. The proposal is to value the option at "time of grant" and expense it over the vesting period (typically years). This is the same as if the company bought a piece of production equipment: it is purchased at some instant and depreciated over a period of years.