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A Brief Understanding of Backdating Stock Options
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| Reports that the SEC is investigating companies for backdating employee stock options have started to surface over the past two years. According to CNET Erik Lie and Randall Heron published a paper “on July 14 [2006 which] estimates that 18.9 percent of unscheduled grants to top executives from 1996 through 2005 were backdated or manipulated. The pair estimates that 29.2 percent of firms manipulated grants to top executives at some point between 1996 and 2005.(1)” This transgression of good ...
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