Sentence examples for treating options from inspiring English sources

Many other technology companies would see their previously reported profits sharply reduced or eliminated by retroactively treating options this way.

That argument has been cited by several companies that have declined to go along with the trend of treating options as an expense.

Treating options like other forms of pay would make executive compensation transparent, diminish the temptation to cook the books and make managers less inclined toward excessive risk-taking.

Opponents of treating options as expenses say that no cash changes hands when options are granted, and that the value of the options cannot be calculated with precision.

In switching to the accounting policy of treating options as expenses, Microsoft had a choice among three ways to move to this new treatment.

G.M. executives said today that treating options as expenses, while not a perfected science, would help restore faith in financial markets.

What's more, treating option grants as period expenses is just bad accounting.

Grant Jones, a Micron spokesman, said, "We treat options in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles".

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

Yet the criminal complaint portrays a man who treated options as if they were free for the taking.

Most companies have not treated options as an expense because it is not mandatory and doing so reduces profits.