Stock Options: Motivation tool

  One of the main reason companies state for issuing stock options is to motivate employees. When employees have a stake in the company they are motivated to put in extra effort for the growth of the company. So the motivating reason does hold true. My thought on...

Infosys sets an example in Corporate Governance

Srinath Batni, an executive director who heads up the Strategic Groups unit for the Bangalore-based software and IT consultancy firm Infosys, was fined about $10,700 for failing to notify the company, in a timely manner, that he sold 10,000 company shares the week...

What is the brouhaha about backdating?

Backdating of stock options is one of the latest hot topics in the accounting world. There are around 100 companies which have declared that they have backdated their options, there have been restatements on the account of backdating and a dozen or so lawsuits on this...