Well, it didn’t take long for my prediction in yesterday’s post — that we would be hearing more about options backdating — to be proven correct. Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front page article (via wsj.com, subscription required) reporting that United Health Group has warned that it may need to restate three years of
Options Backdating
Options Backdating: This Year’s Model?
By Kevin LaCroix on
Posted in Options Backdating
Every day seems to bring fresh media outrage on the topic of executive compensation. Yesteday, the New York Times ran this article questioning executives’ personal use of corporate aircraft. (See a useful discussion of this article on the CorporateCounsel.net blog).
Among the more interesting media analyses on the topic of executive compensation is the series…