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Abstract - Quest for Global Competitiveness - Universidad de Puerto ...

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ABSTRACTThe Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the United StatesCongress enacted new legislation and regulations in 2002 requiring corporationsto initially recognize stock option grants as an expense (voluntarily) on theirfinancial statements. In 2004 option expensing became mandatory. This paper<strong>de</strong>scribes the different changes ma<strong>de</strong> by a sample of U.S. public corporations totheir Equity compensation plans after the mandatory expensing of stock optionswent into effect.The results suggest that firms seem to have reacted to the required optionexpensing by accelerating the vesting of their outstanding options with acontemporaneous reduction in the use of stock options as a compensationincentive. Executive (employee) compensation practices seem to have shiftedfrom stock option grants to per<strong>for</strong>mance and restricted stock awards. Anunexpected finding of this investigation was observing that besi<strong>de</strong>s employeesand Board directors, firms are also granting equity compensation to nonemployeessuch as vendors and consultants.Keywords: Equity compensation plans, stock options, per<strong>for</strong>mance stock,restricted stockData Availability: Data used in this study are available upon request.3

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