The Cost of Employee Stock Option Grants: An Empirical Analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1191-1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Marquardt
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
Employee Stock Option ◽  
The Cost

Congressional Intervention in the Standard-Setting Process: An Analysis of the Stock Option Accounting Reform Act of 2004

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Farber ◽  
Marilyn F. Johnson ◽  
Kathy R. Petroni
Keyword(s):  
Stock Options ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
Financial Accounting Standards Board ◽  
Employee Stock Option ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
Action Committee ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

We examine H.R. 3574, the Stock Option Accounting Reform Act of 2004 (the Act), which sought to prevent the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from requiring the expensing of employee stock options at fair value. We find that employee stock option expense under the Act would be approximately 2 percent of what it would be under the FASB's preferred method. We also find that House members supporting the Act were more likely to be Republican, to be conservative, and to have received larger Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions. Finally, the larger the impact of H.R. 3574 on the amount of stock option expense reported by the firm for employees who are not top-five executives, the more contributions the firm's PAC made to House members and to members of the committee that approved the Act. This result suggests that corporate opposition to the mandatory expensing of stock options at fair value is not driven solely by concerns of top-five executives about the cost of recognizing their own options.

scholarly journals VALUATION OF EMPLOYEE RELOAD OPTIONS USING UTILITY MAXIMIZATION APPROACH

2005 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 659-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
KA WO LAU ◽  
YUE KUEN KWOK
Keyword(s):  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Stock Options ◽  
Utility Maximization ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
Employee Stock Options ◽  
Employee Stock Option ◽  
General Utility ◽  
Black Scholes ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Cost

The reload provision in an employee stock option is an option enhancement that allows the employee to pay the strike upon exercising the stock option using his owned stocks and to receive new "reload" stock options. The usual Black–Scholes risk neutral valuation approach may not be appropriate to be adopted as the pricing vehicle for employee stock options, due to the non-transferability of the ownership of the options and the restriction on short selling of the firm's stocks as hedging strategy. In this paper, we present a general utility maximization framework to price non-tradeable employee stock options with reload provision. The risk aversion of the employee enters into the pricing model through the choice of the utility function. We examine how the value of the reload option to the employee is affected by the number of reloads outstanding, the risk aversion level and personal wealth. In particular, we explore how the reload provision may lower the difference between the cost of granting the option and the private option value and improve the compensation incentive of the option award.

scholarly journals Executive Compensation and Firm Performance in New Zealand: The Role of Employee Stock Option Plans

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
David K. Ding ◽  
Ya Eem Chea
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Executive Compensation ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
First Year ◽  
Employee Stock Option ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Positive Effect

We examine the role of employee stock option plans (ESOPs) in mitigating agency problems in New Zealand firms. We find that ESOPs have a significant and positive effect on firm performance relative to their non-ESOP counterparts. This relation appears within a year from the first ESOP announcement, and for two to four years after the announcement. Our results show that ESOPs improve corporate performance by 10 times the cost of the ESOPs’ adoption in the first year of issue. The improvement persists for four years after the first issuance. These findings confirm the effectiveness of employee stock option plans for companies issuing ESOPs compared with companies that do not issue ESOPs, and show how much the value creation of ESOPs contributes to these firms.

Discretion in Financial Reporting: The Voluntary Adoption of Fair Value Accounting for Employee Stock Options

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dahlia Robinson ◽  
Diane Burton
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
Employee Stock Options ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Employee Stock Option ◽  
Accounting Reports ◽  
Voluntary Adoption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Is Value

This paper investigates the market reaction to announcements by firms of their decision to adopt the fair value provisions of SFAS No. 123 in accounting for their employee stock option (ESO) expense. Additionally, this paper examines ESO usage and expense of adopting firms and compares the impact of the expense on profitability measures for adopting firms relative to a matched set of control firms. We find a positive and significant abnormal return in the three days around the adoption announcements, suggesting that the decision to expense using the fair value method is value relevant. The positive abnormal announcement returns are mainly attributable to the earlier announcements, consistent with early announcements serving as a credible signal of a commitment to transparency in financial reporting. We find evidence that in the three years prior to the announcement year, adopting firms report significantly higher earnings than control firms yet fail to earn higher market returns, suggesting that adopters stand to benefit the most by improving the market's perception of their accounting reports. We also find that ESO usage, ESO expense, and the impact of ESO expense on profitability are significantly lower for adopters relative to control firms, although the impact of ESO expense is economically significant for 43 percent of the adopters.

SFAS No. 123 Disclosures and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard C. Soffer
Keyword(s):  
Cash Flow ◽  
Stock Options ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Employee Stock Options ◽  
Financial Statement Analysis ◽  
Discounted Cash Flow ◽  
Employee Stock Option ◽  
Valuation Technique ◽  
Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

One of the cornerstones of financial statement analysis is the discounted cash flow valuation. Despite the broad use of this valuation technique, and the economic importance of employee stock options to firm values, there is little guidance on how employee stock options should be incorporated in a valuation. This paper provides a comprehensive approach to doing so, including consideration of the income tax implications of option exercises, the simultaneity of equity and option valuation, and the use of the disclosures that were mandated recently by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123. The paper provides a comprehensive example using Microsoft's fiscal 1997 financial statements and employee stock option disclosure. This paper should be of interest to academics and practitioners involved in corporate valuation and financial statement analysis.

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