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This excerpt taken from the EYE 8-K filed Jul 13, 2005. 7. New Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123(R). This standard requires expensing of stock options and other share-based payments and supercedes the FASBs earlier rule (the original SFAS 123) that allowed companies to choose between expensing stock options or showing pro forma disclosure only. We currently show the pro forma disclosures in Note 1 to these condensed consolidated interim financial statements. In April 2005, the SEC approved a new rule to delay the effective date of SFAS 123(R) to annual periods that commence after June 15, 2005. We will be required to implement the new pronouncement and begin recording share-based expense at the beginning of the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Although we have not yet determined whether the adoption of the SFAS 123(R) will
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