Executive stock options: To expense or not?

Financial Management

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-106

  Deshmukh, Sanjay ^a   Howe, Keith M ^a   Luft, Carl ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33745293753     PISSN: 00463892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-053X.2006.tb00132.x     Document Type: Article

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