Backdating

At the time, VA spokeswoman Alison Aikele, told the Albany Times-Union an "initial investigation revealed that someone in the regional office intentionally entered veterans 'claim documents with incorrect dates -- called' backdating '-- into an internal database." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Times-Union an "initial investigation revealed that someone in the regional office intentionally entered veterans 'claim documents with incorrect dates -- called' backdating '-- into an internal database." ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a letter Sunday to Mr. Thorson, OTS Director John Reich called the backdating episode "a relatively small factor in the events leading to the failure of IndyMac." ❋ Unknown (2008)

ALLEN WASTLER, MANAGING EDITOR, CNNMONEY. COM: And the number this week is 83, 83 is the number of companies that are formally under investigation by the government for doing a little sanangains called backdating the options. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The cable TV company restated its second-quarter results, and announced it had been subpoenaed by a grand jury regarding so-called backdating of stock options. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In particular, the investigations have centered on so-called backdating of options, in which paperwork is filed that pretends the grant was made at an earlier date than it actually was. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Most of these cases involve what is known as backdating, the practice of pricing options based on dates when the companies' shares were trading at low prices. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"The backdating was a request on their side," said Shaik. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Gregory Reyes was the first executive to stand trial over the so-called backdating of stock options. ❋ The Associated Press (2010)

At issue is a practice known as backdating, in which options are issued retroactively to coincide with low points in the stock price, which can increase the profit for the recipient. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 2007, for example, it settled several cases involving the illegal " backdating " of stock-options grants by Bay Area companies such and Apple Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. ❋ Amir Efrati (2010)

On balance, a salutary confirmation has been the legal system's handling of last year's business crime of the century, the widespread "backdating" of stock options. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The so-called irregularities largely refer to the practice of stock-option "backdating," or the retroactive setting of an option's strike price to maximize the holder's gains. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At issue is the so-called practice of "backdating" options, which occurs when a company reports options as being issued on an earlier date, most often when the stock was lower, and categorizes the options as being granted "at market," in order to provide executives and employees with more attractive options and to avoid certain compensation expense. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The analyst attributes recent weakness in the stock to investors' concern about stock-options grant "backdating" allegations, and continues to believe this should be a "non-issue," despite near-term headline risk. ❋ Unknown (2006)

While this kind of backdating isn't illegal, companies must disclose it properly and account for the associated expenses. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In recent months, many otherwise reputable corporations have made the news for "backdating" various stock option grants to maximize value to the recipients while minimizing costs to the issuing company. ❋ Marlene M. Browne (2006)

"Yeah, [we did it] on the first date. But we’ve been backdating, so I can still say I’ve never [slept] with anyone I went out with [less than three] times … " ❋ Aboredlawyer (2008)

I thought you and Cindy broke up [a long time ago]. Yeah, we're just backdating. [Oh, cool], that sounds like a healthy [life decision]. ❋ UrbanLexicologist (2010)

Joe had just finished his history [paper] second period on the day it was due; in the [heading], he backdated it a week so that the teacher would believe he didn't do a [half-ass job] on it. ❋ G_oo_gle (2005)

[I have to go] meet my girlfrieds parents but luckily we backdated our relationship and [6 months] sounds so much more [stable]. ❋ FTOT_rocks_d_092209629am (2009)

J: Who in the hell backdated unit space logs into locked financial periods? I thought that was never supposed to happen? L: Our period [logging] architecture was never meant to have the underlying tables updated directly by the application! The trigger keeps each window internally sequenced, so shifting a reporting post date into the middle of a locked post month will have devastating effects on all the downstream logs. H: The backdating damnation [quandary] is clearly taking hold. Fellas you can't unring this bell! There is no undo for `[rm] -rf /*` and there is no `[rollback]` if you forgot your `begin`! Talk to the [dbas], this is going to be a long night... ❋ Badhorsey (2020)