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The accounting question is, What cost, if any, does StartUp incur on Day 1 of the grant to Joe Bithead of an option to acquire 10,000 shares five years hence for $0.01 per share? StartUp shares trade in public stock markets on the date of grant at $0.01 per share. Because the word cost has so many meanings (see cost terminology in the Glossary. make the question operational and specific by considering the following.
Imagine that you are the financial executive of StartUp and that Goldman Sachs offers to relieve you of the obligation to deliver the shares to Joe Bithead. That is, Goldman will take a payment from you today and will deliver the shares to Bithead if he exercises the options but will do nothing otherwise, except keep your cash. How much are you willing to pay Goldman today to relieve you of your obligation to Bithead? That is you pay Goldman now and they later deliver shares to Bithead if he exercises his options.
No one can be sure of the exact answer, given the sketchy data, but which of the following ranges do you think most likely?
a. $0 to $l0.
b. $l0 to $100.
c. $l00 to $1,000.
d. $1.000 to $10,000.
e. $10,000 to $100,000.
f. Some other answer (indicate answer).
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Financial Accounting an introduction to concepts, methods and uses
ISBN: 978-0324789003
13th Edition
Authors: Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil, Katherine Schipper, Jennifer Francis
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