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If youre like the majority of the estimated 12 million employees in the U.S. who have stock options as a key component to their compensation packages, you have a vague notion, at best, of how options work and what they can mean to your financial well being. Whats the vesting schedule for your shares and how will their strike price be set? What type of stock option grant will you receive, an ISO (incentive stock option) or an NQSO (non-qualified stock option)? What tax rules apply to your option program? Your financial future could depend on your knowing the answers to these and other questions regarding your companys stock option plan.

Confused by all the brouhaha surrounding stock options? Let expert Alan Simon demystify this often-confusing investment vehicle for you. Featuring clear explanations of how your stock options might make you money--or not--this friendly guide fills you in on what you need to know to:

  • Understand different types of stock options
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Stock Options For Dummies

by Alan Simon

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Stock Options For Dummies

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Copyright 2001 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

Published simultaneously in Canada

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About the Author

Alan Simon is a computer consultant, author of 26 books (including Data Warehousing For Dummies), and farmer. He has held a number of executive positions in technology consulting firms, and has been a computer professional since the late 1970s. His extensive experiences with his own stock options sometimes painful experiences have provided him with an objective, no-hype perspective of stock options that he imparts in this book.

Alan lives on a farm in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Authors Acknowledgments

Id like to thank the editors with whom I worked on this project including Jonathan Malysiak, Keith Peterson, and Suzanne Thomas for their valuable assistance with this book. I would also like to thank Matt Wagner of Waterside Productions. Jay Klapper, Keren Hamel, and Scott Temares provided valuable assistance with stock option anecdotes and experiences. I would also like to thank Bruce Brumberg of MyStockOptions.com; Wade Williams of MyOptionValue.com; Thomas Grady of StockOptionsCentral.com; and Dale Krieger of Stock-Options.com.

Publishers Acknowledgments

Were proud of this book; please send us your comments through our Dummies online registration form located at www.dummies.com/register/

Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following:Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media Development

Project Editor: Keith Peterson

Acquisitions Editors: Mark Butler, Jon Malysiak

Copy Editor: Suzanne Thomas

Acquisitions Coordinator: Lauren Cundiff

Technical Editor: Sandra Sussman

Editorial Manager: Pam Mourouzis

Editorial Assistant: Carol Strickland

Cover Image: Scott Barow/Imagestate 2005

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Project Coordinator: Dale White

Layout and Graphics: Joe Bucki, Heather Pope, JeremeyUnger

Proofreaders: David Faust, Aptara Production Services

Indexer: Aptara Production Services

Publishing and Editorial for Consumer Dummies

Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher, Consumer Dummies

Joyce Pepple, Acquisitions Director, Consumer Dummies

Kristin A. Cocks, Product Development Director, Consumer Dummies

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Brice Gosnell, Associate Publisher, Travel

Suzanne Jannetta, Editorial Director, Travel

Publishing for Technology Dummies

Andy Cummings, Vice President and Publisher, Dummies Technology/General User

Composition Services

Gerry Fahey, Vice President of Production Services

Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services

The publisher would like to give special thanks to Patrick J. McGovern, without whom this book would not have been possible.

Introduction

E ven though an estimated 12 million U.S. employees have stock options as a key component of their respective compensation packages, many of those people understand only the most basic aspects of their stock options.

This lack of stock option knowledge, however, is understandable when you realize how most companies handle the granting of stock options to their employees. When a job offer is extended, a representative from the HR (Human Resources) department will usually follow up the salary offer with a bland, imprecise statement, something along the lines of oh, yeah, you also get 5,000 stock options.

But no mention of the vesting schedule for those shares, no mention of how the strike price for those 5,000 shares will be set, and usually no mention of what kind of stock option grant you will receive an incentive stock option (ISO) grant or a nonqualified stock option (NQSO) grant, each with different tax consequences. (If this book is your first exposure to the world of stock options, dont worry about the terminology in the preceding paragraph: I cover those terms along with other stock option basics in Chapter 1.)

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