Accounting Archive

The Problem with Stock Options Accounting

November 6, 2006  ·  Category: Accounting
As I wrote a few weeks ago, in my review of Yahoo!'s 3rd quarter, changes in stock options accounting made Yahoo!'s quarter seem worse than it was.  In an aside in that post, I also ...
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Top Gun Gets It Wrong: Yahoo! Reports an Expected Mediocre Quarter - And Gets Hammered!

October 19, 2006  ·  Category: Stocks, Options, Accounting
The market responded negatively to Yahoo!'s mediocre 3rd quarter - even though everybody knew it was coming!  Yahoo's shares lost $1.16 yesterday to close at $22.99 on volume of almost 112 million shares.  The shares have ...
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