List or Articles - Worldwide
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December 2005
India
Policy on staff participation in equity needed
Source: Financial Express
Posted to GEO: 8 December 2005
United States
Companies speed up vesting of stock options
By: Jerri Stroud
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Posted to GEO: 8 December 2005
India
Indian Companies Look at Equity Rewards Schemes in New Light
Source: Hindustan Times
Posted to GEO: 6 December 2005
Ireland
Managerial salaries up 5.5pc :- survey
Source: Bizworld
Posted to GEO: 6 December 2005
Korea
Stock Options Need Shareholder Approval
Source: Korea Times
Posted to GEO: 6 December 2005
Thailand
Thailand: Tax Experts Explain Stock Option Issues
Source: Thai News Service
Posted to GEO: 6 December 2005
United States
Analog Devices Settles SEC Stock-Option Probe
Source: Boston Business Journal
Posted to GEO: 6 December 2005
United States
Research Provider Also Set to Include and Report Option Expense in its Forward Estimates
Source: Standard & Poor's
Posted to GEO: 6 December 2005
November 2005
France
2005 WTD 201-12 French Taxation of Free Grant of Corporate Shares to Employees
Source: Tax Notes Int'l
Published By: Tax AnalystsTM
Posted to GEO: 29 November 2005
United Kingdom
SHARE SCHEMES: Covering staff using a cloaked share plan
Source: Employee Benefits
Posted to GEO: 29 November 2005
United Kingdom
SHARE SCHEMES: On HR's cutting edge: tailoring share plans
Source: Employee Benefits
Posted to GEO: 29 November 2005
Australia
More boards to face backlash on options
By:Fleur Leyden
Source: The Herald Sun
11 November 2005

China
China to give stock options to officials at state companies
Source: Taipei Times / Bloomberg
11 November 2005

Finland
Fat bonuses at Finnish energy group Fortum spark heated row
From: Agence France Presse
By: GAB
11 November 2005
United Kingdom
IFRS hits popularity of stock options
By: Barney Jopson
Source: The Financial Times
11 November 2005
United Kingdom
A stake in success: Like Wayne Rooney, employees want to be part of a winning team
By: Jonathan Michie
Source: The Guardian
11 November 2005
United Kingdom
2006 ICSA Certificate in Employee Share Plans
Source: Linklaters
11 November 2005
United Kingdom
Royal Mail Must Stay in Public Hands
Source: Communications Worker Union
11 November 2005
United Kingdom
SHARE SCHEMES: Accounting for share plan changes
Publication: Employee Benefits
Source: Centaur Communications Limited
11 November 2005
United States
Authorities Probe Improper Backdating of Options --- Practice Allows Executives To Bolster Their Stock Gains; A Highly Beneficial Pattern
By: Mark Maremont
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
United States
CEO and Directors' Pay Rises, The Conference Board Reports in its Annual Compensation Studies
By: Charles Peck
Source: The Conference Board
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
United States
Executive Compensation; Compensation Committees: Tally Sheets and Other Issues; Tally Sheets; Stock Options; Summary; Observations; Disney/Ovitz, NYSE/Grasso; Education and Continuity
By: Joseph E. Bachelder III
Source: The New York Law Journal
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
United States
Gimmickry of accelerated option vesting
By: Rachel Beck
Source: The Associated Press
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
United States
Private Company Stock Option Pricing In The 409A Era
By: Dan Meehan, Buff Miller, Bill Morrow, Susan Philpot, Thomas Reicher, David Walsh & Thomas Welk
Source: Mondaq Ltd.
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
United States
Stock Options, Meet Pro Forma
By: Craig Schneider
Source: CFO.com
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
United States
Stock Options: Closer to Consensus?
By: Craig Schneider
Source: CFO.com
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
United States
Stock-option Manipulation at Mercury: CEO, CFO, and general counsel resign from the maker of business software
By: Stephen Taub
Source: CFO.com
Posted to GEO: 11 November 2005
Australia
Executive remuneration. REWARD OR LIABILITY?
By:Thandeka Gqubule
Source: The Financial Times Limited
3 November 2005
India
Time to share: Cos move to stem attrition, attract talent
By: : Vinod Mahanta and Bhanu Pande
Source: The Economic Times (The Times Group of India)
3 November 2005
South Africa
Executive remuneration. REWARD OR LIABILITY?
By: : Thandeka Gqubule
Source: The Financial Times Limited
3 November 2005
United States
Additional Paid In Capital Pool Drained of Biases
By: Craig Schneider
Source: CFO.com
Posted to GEO: 3 November 2005
October 2005
United States
Wall St. still not accounting for options rule change
Source: Reuters News
Posted to GEO: 24 October 2005
Worldwide
A stake in success: Like Wayne Rooney, employees want to be part of a winning team
By: Jonathan Michie
Source: The Guradian
Posted to GEO: 24 October 2005
United Kingdom
Incentive retains its attraction for small companies Share Options: But schemes have been losing favour among big enterprises, writes Stephen Overell
By: Stephen Overell
Publisher The Financial Times
20 October 2005
United States
US Outbound: The proposed cost-sharing regulations and Xilinx
By: Sean Foley
Source: KPMG
Posted to GEO: 20 October 2005
Worldwide
Total Stock Option Values Have Declined Sharply Since 2001, Watson Wyatt Survey Finds
Source: Watson Wyatt
Posted to GEO: 20 October 2005
Finland
The poor always envy stock option millionaires but not shareholders
Source: Helsingin Sanomat
By: Juha-Pekka Raeste
10 October. 2005
Jamaica
Only a quarter of listed firms offer share options
Source: www.CFO.com
By: Camilo Thame
10 October 2005
Philippines
DLR’s stand on stock option questioned
By: Ronnie E. Calumpita
Source: The Manilla Times Reporter
10 October 2005
Singapore
Forget share options, think share grants
By: Michelle Quah
Source: Business Times Singapore
10 October 2005
United Kingdom
A Stake in the Post: Makling Employees Stakeholders in Royal Mail (.pdf)
By: Maoiliosa O'Culachain and David Forfar
Publisher Job Ownership Limited (JOL)
10 October 2005
United States
Stock Option Studies and Options Expensing
Source: Accountingweb.com
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
United States
SEC Rebuffs Cisco Option Plan
By: Stephen Taub
Source: CFO.com
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
United States
New rules could affect stock option valuations
By: Stella M. Hopkins
Source: The Charlotte Observer
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
United States
Council of Institutional Investors Comment Letter
By: Ann Yerger, Executive Director, CII
To: Sharon Rowlands, President and CEO Thomson Financial
Source: The Council oif Institutional Investors
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
United States
2005 Executive Compensation Survey Shows Stock Options Still Most Popular Long-Term Incentive
Source: Fred W. Cook & Co.
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
United States
IRS Issues Long-Awaited Proposed Deferred Compensation Regulations
Source: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
United States
Application of Section 409A to Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans (.pdf 3.3 MB)
Source: The Internal Revenue Service -
Department of the Treasury

Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
United States
Microsoft contractors win $72m payout Permatemps rejoice
By: Jo Best
Source: CFO.com
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
Vietnam
Vietnam's Reform of Personal Income Taxation: Impact on Stock Options
Source: KPMG Limited
            
Ho Chi Minh City
10 October. 2005
Worldwide
Seeking Unlimited Success From Providing a Market for Restricted Stock
By: Jenny Anderson
Source: The New York Times
Posted to GEO: 10 October 2005
September 2005
Equity Incentives around the World: The 2005 Study (.pdf)
Contributetd by: Towers & Perrin
19 Sept. 2005
Practical Exception to the Application of Grant Date as Defined in FASB Statement No. 123(R)
From: FASB
Posted to GEO: 28 Sept. 2005
New Rules at the APIC Pool
By: Craig Schneider
From: CFO.com
Posted to GEO: 28 Sept. 2005
Rationalizing Global Incentive Pay Plans: Look at the Big Picture
Contributetd by: Deloitte
Reprinted from workspan, September 2005, with permission from WorldatWork, 14040 N. Northsight Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85260
19 Sept. 2005
Stock Option Grant Date is Clearer
Author: Serena Ng
From: Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). New York, NY: Aug 10, 2005, pg. C.3
Posted to GEO: 9 Sept. 2005
The 2005 Top 250: Long-term Incentive Grant Practices for Executives
From: Frederick W. Cook & Co., Inc.
Posted to GEO: 6 Sept. 2005
Firms Reconsider Stock Discounts For Employees
Author: Andrew Blackman
From: Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). New York, NY: Sept 6, 2005, p.D.2
Posted to GEO: 6 Sept. 2005
Stock-Option Issuance Slips, a Bit
From: Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). New York, NY: Sept 6, 2005, p.C.3
Posted to GEO: 6 Sept. 2005
August 2005
Meeting with Representatives of the EU Commission Internal Market Directorate-General to Discuss the EU Prospectus Directive and its Application to Employee Share Plans (.pdf - 598 KB)
contributed by: Alexy Armitage Mercer
24 Aug. 2005
Please note: The notes cannot be altered and any reference to the notes must take account of the caveats agreed with the EU Commission Services and the FSA.
July 2005
The 2005 Deloitte Stock Compensation Survey
Contributed by: Deloitte
15 July 2005
April 2005
IBM, Breaking Ranks, Will Early Expense Options Using Black-Scholes
From: San Jose Mercury News
Contributed By: PricewaterhouseCoopers
08 April 2005
March 2005
Joining the Lawyers (.pdf)
Matt Warner
First Published in Accountancy Magazine
Contributed by: Pinsent Masons
11 March 2005
Shares meet their Waterloo (.pdf)
William Franklin and Gareth Green
First Published in Accountancy Magazine
Contributed by: Pinsent Masons
11 March 2005
EBay Being Sued For Allegedly Ending Employee Stock Options
From: Dow Jones News Service
Contributed By: PricewaterhouseCoopers
11 March 2005
February 2005
International Financial Reporting Standards - Why ÊU.S. companies need to get in the game!
Contributed By: PricewaterhouseCoopers
25 Feb. 2005