Mаnаgers’ Respоnse tо а New Standard: In 2004, the Financial Accоunting Standards Board (FASB) revised SFAS 123 to mandate the expensing of employee stock option grants, but firms had until 2006 to adopt the mandate. The delay between the passage of the new rule and its mandated adoption date provided managers with the opportunity to take two very different paths. The first path was the acceleration of the vesting of executive stock options prior to the SFAS 123R effective date (accelerators), which reduced the number of options the firms had to expense after the SFAS 123R mandatory adoption date. Managers took this path to avoid reporting lower earnings after the SFAS 123R mandatory adoption date. An alternative path was the early adoption of SFAS 123R, whereby managers started to recognize the expenses associated with SFAS 123R earlier than required (early-adopters). An academic study found evidence that in the period before early adoption, there were no significant differences in audit fees across the two groups of firms – early-adopters and accelerators. However, following the early adoption period, audit fees were significantly lower for early adopters, and significantly higher for accelerators. Further, the study documented significant positive abnormal returns at the early adoption announcements and significant negative abnormal returns at the acceleration announcements. Required: Using your knowledge of capital markets, explain why a company’s reporting choices around this new standard could impact audit fees and stock prices.
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