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Hello 1999!

• adventured 9y ago
  No, in 1999 most public tech companies didn't account for stock options in that way. They pretended they weren't an expense, boosting their profitability figures. Although the dotcom bubble arguably played a big role in finally causing a shift in that accounting practice. https://hbr.org/2003/03/for-the-last-time-stock-options-are-an-expense https://hbr.org/2003/03/for-the-last-time-stock-options-are-...