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- <text id=93TT1477>
- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: Taking Stock
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- BUSINESS
- Taking Stock
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A new accounting rule restrains a favorite form of executive
- pay
- </p>
- <p> In a profession whose idea of excitement is sharpening a
- bundle of No. 2 pencils, last Wednesday's meeting of the
- Financial Accounting Standards Board was the equivalent of
- Woodstock. At a rare standing-room-only gathering captured by
- even rarer camera crews, the FASB decided by a 6-to-1 vote to
- force companies to deduct from their earnings the value of stock
- options awarded to managers. Stock incentives, which account for
- as much as 90% of corporate executive income, have come under
- attack by critics of excessive pay. The rule change, which could
- reduce declared profits as much as 48%, should discourage
- companies from being so generous. The decision was opposed by
- business groups, big investors, some legislators and the Big Six
- accounting firms. In a bow to these opponents, the new rule
- won't take effect until 1997.
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- </body>
- </article>
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