On August 9 the second set of criminal charges was laid against US executives for option backdating.Read more

As we reported a couple of months ago, the Australian Treasury is considering reducing the compliance burden associated...Read more

Last Wednesday, July 26, the SEC voted publicly to adopt new disclosure standards that, in many ways, are similar to...Read more

900,000 Australians have decamped to take up employment far from this country’s sunny shores.Read more

Under IFRS, employee share options are required to be expensed at fair market value.Read more

Recently an Australian mining company announced that it had undervalued the expense of executive and director share...Read more

Options backdating refers to the practice of selecting (in retrospect) the most advantageous or lowest share price...Read more

The latest from Australia’s Treasury indicates that the specific changes to Corporations Act s300A director and...Read more

Option backdating in Australia has, in our experience, been more commonly associated with administrative streamlining...Read more

Loan backed share plans have many advantages. The cost of the loan is tax deductible to the company. There is no FBT...Read more