The purpose of this paper is to address two issues. It defines the appropriate role played by institutions in the financial sector and focuses on the role of risk management in firms that use their own balance sheets to provide financial products. A key objective is to explain when risks are...

Employee stock options (ESOs) are used by many corporations as a major part of their compensation programs. Expensing issued ESOs on the grant date is now mandated in FAS 123 (R). The SEC's specific measurement objective for disclosure is to estimate an ESO grant's expense to the granting...