Sentence examples for compensation expense from inspiring English sources

Compensation expense fell 35percentto to $4 billion.

— Facebook will suddenly recognize a huge share-based compensation expense on its income statement.

Stock-based compensation expense was roughly $188 million, or 3 cents a share, the company said.

Compensation expense, including $15.7 million in merger-related retention programs, increased 8.9percentt.

Citigroup and General Electric are among the latest companies to announce that they will treat options as a compensation expense.

Apple restated financial results for three fiscal years and recognized $105 million of stock-based compensation expense.

The compensation expense was equivalent to $292,836 for each of the company's workers employed as of 30 September.

The company's compensation expense climbed 6.7 percent, to $1.6 billion, while noncompensation expense rose 21 percent, an increase the bank attributed in large part to increased litigation costs.

Restricted stock became popular in Silicon Valley after an accounting change in 2004 required companies to treat stock options as a compensation expense.

To keep accounting income looking healthy, some companies began issuing restricted stock, which minimizes share dilution and spreads the compensation expense over the vesting period of the stock.

Accounting rule makers recommend that companies charge the fair value of options granted to employees as a compensation expense, but they do not require it.