A FASB is the Financial Accounting Standards board. The FASB stock option is a way to calculate profit/resources for a company. It is used, for example, to plan out employee pay.
In short, a free stock option is just a stock option that is free. It gives you the right to buy something, regardless of whether you actually buy it or not.
A Stock option is a benefit given by a company to an employee. The employee is encouraged to buy stock in the company at a discounted price, thus helping the company.
The latest news is that these will need to be deducted as of next year, here's the article http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/12/fasb_stock_opti.html Please find all information attached there as well as here www.fasb.org
Stock options are considered volatile if the stock has been consistently and significantly moving up and down. If it's holding a steady price, it's not volatile.
Non-qualified stock options (NSO) is a form of employee stock option. In this stock, the employee pays normal income tax on the difference between the grant and the price of the stock.
Stock option vesting is the period of time when a person granted stock options has to wait before being able to use those stocks. There is information available at www.wikipedia.com as to the exact definition, but the vesting period is up to the employer offering the options.
What is the relationship between the iasb and the fasb as well as the iasb equivalents for the fasb original pronouncements?
A incentive stock option is a employee stock option that can only be done by employees. This option causes the employees to pay less on their income taxes.
The best way to save for retirment is a 401 K where a company puts money into a retirement fund and most companies match it. The second option once thats maxed out is a Roth IRA, which is when you pay taxes at the start, but when you take it out at age 59 1/2 there is no taxes, it's all yours.
It's actually called a call option. I will provide you with a definition I just found for this, and some additional tips on options trading. - - - - - The option to sell shares is a put. The option to buy them is a call.
A stock grant is when an employer gives you company stock outright, while a stock option is the right to buy company stock at a set price in the future.
It is responsible for selecting members of the FASB, raising money to fund the FASB's operations, and providing general oversight of the FASB to assure that it is performing its mission