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MRVL » Topics » Accounting for Certain Transactions Involving Stock Compensation - An Interpretation of APB Opinion No. 25This excerpt taken from the MRVL 10-K filed Apr 13, 2006. Accounting
for Certain Transactions Involving Stock Compensation — An Interpretation
of APB Opinion No. 25 (“FIN 44”). FIN 44 clarifies
the definition of an employee for purposes of applying APB 25, the
criteria for determining whether a plan qualifies as a noncompensatory plan,
the accounting consequence of various modifications to the terms of a
previously fixed stock option or award, and the accounting for an exchange of
stock compensation awards in a business combination. The rules require
that the intrinsic value of the restricted stock and unvested options be allocated
to deferred compensation and recognized as stock-based compensation expense
ratably over the remaining future vesting period. In the event that a holder
does not fully vest in the restricted stock or unvested options, the
unamortized portion of deferred compensation is eliminated.
In December 2004, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” (“SFAS 123R”) that addresses the accounting for share-based payment transactions in which an enterprise receives employee services in exchange for either equity instruments of the enterprise or liabilities that are based on the fair value of the enterprise’s equity instruments or that may be settled by the issuance of such equity instruments. The statement eliminates the ability to account for share-based compensation transactions using the intrinsic value method as prescribed by Accounting Principles Board, or APB, Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees,” and generally requires that such transactions be accounted for using a fair-value-based method and recognized as expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of income. Effective February 1, 2006, the Company adopted SFAS 123R. The Company plans to use the modified-prospective method of recognition of compensation expense related to share-based payments. Upon adoption, SFAS 123R will have a material and adverse effect on the Company’s reported results of operations, although it will have no impact on its overall financial position because the Company will be required to expense the fair value of its stock option grants and stock purchases under its employee stock option and stock purchase plans rather than disclose the impact on its consolidated net income within the footnotes as is the Company’s current practice. The amounts disclosed within the Company’s footnotes are not necessarily indicative of the amounts that will be expensed upon the adoption of SFAS 123R. Compensation expense calculated under SFAS 123R may differ from amounts currently disclosed within the Company’s footnotes based on changes in the fair value of its common stock, changes in the number of options granted or the terms of such options, the treatment of tax benefits and changes in interest rates or other factors. 76 MARVELL TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD. In connection with the adoption of SFAS 123R, the Company has a balance of unearned stock-based compensation to be expensed in the future related to share-based awards unvested at January 31, 2006, as previously calculated under the disclosure-only requirements of SFAS 123. If there are any modifications or cancellations of the underlying unvested securities, the Company may be required to accelerate, increase or cancel any remaining unearned stock-based compensation expense. To the extent that the Company grants additional equity securities to employees or assumes unvested securities in connection with any acquisitions, stock-based compensation expense will be increased by the additional unearned compensation resulting from those additional grants or acquisitions. The Company anticipates it will grant additional employee stock options in the first quarter of fiscal 2007 as part of its regular annual equity compensation focal review program. The fair value of these grants is not included in the amount above, as the impact of these grants cannot be predicted at this time because it will depend on the number of share-based payments granted as part of the focal review program and the then current fair values. Had the Company adopted SFAS 123R in prior periods, the magnitude of the impact of that standard on the Company’s results of operations would have been less than the impact of SFAS 123 reported in prior period disclosures due to the application of the historical rate of forfeitures of stock options on the Black-Scholes option pricing model as illustrated in the pro forma table above. SFAS 123R also requires the benefits of tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation cost to be reported as a financing cash flow, rather than as an operating cash flow as required under current literature. This requirement may reduce net operating cash flows and increase net financing cash flows in periods after its adoption. The Company cannot estimate what those amounts will be in the future. |
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