Talk:Options backdating

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Is Option or Employee stock option the better link? Mr Stephen 22:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Broken Links

The external links:

"Background on the Options Backdating Scandal, ISS, retrieved 2006-07-24."
"CNBC's Closing Bell interview with CFRA's Marc Siegel May 19, 2006, retrieved 2006-12-27"
"Ex-Comverse lawyer settles with SEC for $3 million, retrieved 2007-01-10"

are broken.

idfubar (talk) 05:56, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

All three work for me. TJRC (talk) 19:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Definition

"Options backdating is the practice of issuing options contracts on a later date than which the options have listed."

This does not seem to clearly define backdating. I have a decent understanding of financial options, and I cannot figure out what it means from this sentence. It's also questionable whether the sentence is grammatically correct.

It seems to me: Options backdating is the corporate practice of granting an option in the present but reporting that it was issued "at the money" at a prior date when the stock price was lower. This allows the corporation to grant an option, typically as employee compensation, that appears to have been issued "at the money" but was in fact issued "in the money." 67.194.84.78 (talk) 05:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)