BDO Case Study – “Accounting for Stock Options” Congratulations‚ your firm has just won a new engagement for the December 31‚ 2012 audit of Stock It (the Company). You are the lead senior on the engagement and thus were delegated the task of auditing the client’s equity balances. In review‚ you noted that the client has a significant amount of stock options issued to their employees‚ a means that many start-up companies use to compensate employees and entice them to put in the effort to make the
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been facing difficulties in managing its stock. This case discusses about how McDonald’s used to manage its stock earlier and how its implementation of new stock management systems benefitted the company. To manage stock efficiently‚ a balance is needed between meeting customers’ needs reducing wastage. The latter factor can be done by precisely forecasting demand so that food doesn’t need to be thrown away frequently & also capably controlling the stock of the raw materials. However‚ this can
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Executive Stock Options and IPO Underpricing Michelle Lowry• Smeal College of Business Penn State University E-mail: mlowry@psu.edu Phone: (814) 865-1483 Kevin J. Murphy Marshall School of Business University of Southern California E-mail: kjmurphy@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-6553 July 31‚ 2006 Abstract In about one-third of US IPOs between 1996 and 2000‚ executives received stock options with an exercise price set equal to the IPO offer price (rather than a price determined by the market)
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Consider an option on a non-dividend-paying stock when the stock price is $30‚ the exercise price is $29‚ the risk-free interest rate is 5% per annum‚ the volatility is 25% per annum‚ and the time to maturity is four months. a. What is the price of the option if it is a European call? b. What is the price of the option if it is an American call? c. What is the price of the option if it is a European put? d. Verify that put–call parity holds. Question 2 Assume that the stock in Question
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arrangements by which employees receive shares of stock or other equity instruments of the employer or the employer incurs liabilities to employees in amounts based on the price of the employer’s stock. Compensation cost should be measured at the grant date based on the value of the award and is recognized over the service period‚ which is usually the vesting period‚ under the fair value based method. Compensation costs are recognized for other types of stock-based compensation plans under Opinion 25‚ including
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inherent in the option investment strategies‚ please perform the following analyses for call and put options on Lotus’s common stock that mature in February 1994 and that have an exercise price of $55 per share. a. Compute net profits and losses per share (actual dollar profit and losses‚ not rates of return) at expiration (February 19‚ 1994) for the following investment strategies: Buying a call option on Lotus’s stock; Writing a call option on Lotus’s common stock; Buying a put option on Lotus’s
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Stockholder Ratios Stockholders are primarily interested in two things: (1) The creation of value‚ and (2) The distribution of value. Stockholder ratios such as earnings per share and return on common equity provide information about the creation of value for shareholders. The value is distributed to shareholders in one of two ways. Either the corporation issues dividends or repurchases stock. The remainder of the stockholder ratios—dividend yield‚ dividend payout‚ stock repurchase payout
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Utilitarianism & Stockholder Theory There are many theories when it comes to business ethics and what approaches to take. Two of these leading theories today are Stakeholder Theory and Stockholder Theory. But how does a business executive decide which theory to use when approaching business ethics? This could be determined by the choice of ethical decision-making model by the individual executive. In this essay‚ I will attempt to provide a basis for which a utilitarian thinking business executive
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Issuing Stock Warrants to Investors: How Stock Option Warrants Work • When raising capital for a business venture‚ warrants are a common form of equity that is given to investors. A warrant is like an option - it gives the holder the right to buy a security at a fixed or formulaic price‚ which is known as the "exercise" or "strike" price. • Warrants are often confused with options. Options‚ as used in the venture capital space‚ are typically long term (up to 10 years). They are also typically
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Stock Option and Ethics Carol Berry ACC201 Principles of Financial Accounting Instructor: David Miller August 1‚ 2011 Stock Option and Ethics In today’s corporate world stock options makes up and is increasingly dominates CEO pay packages. CEO’s and top level executives are paid in a variety of different ways and stock options are just one of the ways that they get paid. CEO’s and executives have skills and responsibilities that allow directors of companies to pay these executives an extremely
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