Weyerhaeuser Company (WY)

Note 3: Stock-Based Employee Compensation

The company continues to apply the intrinsic-value method for stock-based compensation to employees prescribed by APB Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and related interpretations.

As described in Note 2: New Accounting Pronouncements, APB Opinion No. 25 will be superseded by Statement 123R effective as of the beginning of fiscal year 2006. Employee awards issued, modified, repurchased or cancelled after implementation of Statement 123R under share-based payment arrangements will be measured at fair value as of the grant dates and the resulting cost will be recognized in the statement of earnings over the service period.

The following table illustrates the effect on net earnings and net earnings per share as if the company had applied the fair-value-recognition provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (Statement 123), to stock-based employee compensation. The company has consistently defined the past year as the service period for purposes of applying the fair value recognition provisions of Statement 123. As a result, stock-based employee compensation expense is reflected as of the option grant dates in the following table.

Stock Option Exercise and Share Repurchase Program

On April 13, 2004, the company instituted a program to purchase shares from a limited number of employees who had been limited in their ability to sell shares issuable upon exercise of their stock options as a result of trading restrictions the company imposed on such employees. Under this program, the option holders were permitted to effect a cashless exercise of their stock options followed by an immediate sale to the company of the common shares issued on such cashless exercise, so that there would be no market transaction in connection with such exercises. Only those options granted to 21 participating employees on or prior to April 19, 1999, (representing options to purchase 578,486 common shares) were eligible to be exercised under the program. The program resulted in variable accounting treatment for the stock options included in the program through the program’s expiration. The program expired on April 1, 2005.

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Note 3: Stock-Based Employee Compensation

The company continues to apply the intrinsic-value method for stock-based compensation to employees prescribed by APB Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and related interpretations.

As described in “Prospective Accounting Pronouncements,” APB Opinion No. 25 will be superseded by Statement 123R effective as of the beginning of fiscal year 2006. Employee awards issued, modified, repurchased or cancelled after implementation of Statement 123R under share-based payment arrangements will be measured at fair value as of the grant dates and the resulting cost will be recognized in the statement of earnings over the service period.

The following table illustrates the effect on net earnings and net earnings per share as if the company had applied the fair-value-recognition provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (Statement 123), to stock-based employee compensation. The company has consistently defined the past year as the service period for purposes of applying the fair value recognition provisions of Statement 123. As a result, stock-based employee compensation expense is reflected as of the option grant dates in the following table.

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Stock Option Exercise and Share Repurchase Program

On April 13, 2004, the company instituted a program to purchase shares from a limited number of employees who had been limited in their ability to sell shares issuable upon exercise of their stock options as a result of trading restrictions the company imposed on such employees. Under this program, the option holders were permitted to effect a cashless exercise of their stock options followed by an immediate sale to the company of the common shares issued on such cashless exercise, so that there would be no market transaction in connection with such exercises. Only those options granted to 21 participating employees on or prior to April 19, 1999, (representing options to purchase 578,486 common shares) were eligible to be exercised under the program. The program resulted in variable accounting treatment for the stock options included in the program through the program’s expiration. The program expired on April 1, 2005.

Note 3: Stock-Based Employee Compensation

The company continues to apply the intrinsic-value method for stock-based compensation to employees prescribed by APB Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and related interpretations.

As described in “Prospective Accounting Pronouncements,” APB Opinion No. 25 will be superceded by Statement 123R effective as of the beginning of fiscal year 2006. Employee awards issued, modified, repurchased or cancelled after implementation of Statement 123R under share-based payment arrangements will be measured at fair value as of the grant dates and the resulting cost will be recognized in the statement of earnings over the service period.

The following table illustrates the effect on net earnings and net earnings per share as if the company had applied the fair-value-recognition provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (Statement 123), to stock-based employee compensation. The company has consistently defined the past year as the service period for purposes of applying the fair value recognition provisions of Statement 123. As a result, stock-based employee compensation expense is reflected as of the option grant dates in the following table.

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Weyerhaeuser Company