Grant Thornton Finds Sobering Outcomes for 2009 Executive Pay

We step beyond the Big Four firms for this blog post, going to the home page of Grant Thornton (GT) for an interesting and very relevant study on executive compensation. This is fresh off the press as it captures sentiment as of February 2009. The findings are quite sobering and the ultimate impact of the slowing economy is being felt where it hurts the most – the executive wallet...

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Deloitte & Touche LLP Gets Pulled into Stock Option Accounting Mess

There is a raging scandal going on in how companies have issued options to senior executives. Apparently several companies have manipulated the date of granting options to a day when the stock price was the lowest for a certain period. So when the stock even goes up modestly from this level, the options become "in the money" and have a good chance of staying in the money due to their artificially low exercise price....


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