Should stock options be recorded as an expense on a company's income statement and balance sheet, or should they remain where they are, relegated to footnotes? The authors believe the case for expensing options is overwhelming. In this article, Nobel laureate Robert Merton, one of the inventors of the Black-Scholes option-pricing model; his co-author on the classic textbook Finance, Zvi Bodie; and Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, examine and dismiss the principal claims put forward by those who continue to oppose options expensing. They demonstrate that stock-option grants have real cash-flow implications that need to be reported and detail the distortions that relegating stock-option accounting to footnotes creates. The authors agree that options are a powerful incentive, and failing to record a transaction that creates such powerful effects is economically indefensible. Worse, it encourages companies to favor options over alternative incentive systems.

【書誌情報】

ページ数：12ページ

サイズ：A4

商品番号：HBSP-R0303D

発行日：2003/3/1

登録日：2012/3/28