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Sep 30, 2006

Options backdating: just a few bad apples?

Lots of companies have been investigating options grants and delaying filing, giving rise to the corporate outrage du jour, but has the issue been overblown?

Just when you thought you could sit back and enjoy a financial scandal-free summer, options backdating kept rearing its ugly head. But whether or not the most recent corporate outrage du jour is deserving of the attention it’s received is open to debate. A few egregious examples have already cost some executives their jobs, and the SEC has hastily issued new disclosure rules for options, adding them to an already fasttracked overhaul of executive compensation disclosure. The backdating

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