Chapter 7
Financing Activities
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in whole or in part.
e. The value of an option at any time is:
• Positively related to the volatility of returns on the stock. The larger the re-
turn volatility, the higher the upside potential to the intrinsic value (but
bounded at zero on the downside).
exercise price.
• Inversely related to the dividend yield. Dividends reduce the stock price in
the amount of the dividend; that is, owners of the stock get their returns in
the form of dividends instead of stock price appreciation.
7.20 Stock-Based Compensation.
a. Stock-based compensation does not require an outflow of cash by Eli Lilly. Be-
cause stock-based compensation is reported as an expense on Lilly’s income
statement and because Lilly uses the indirect method of calculating operating
plans.” The amount reported represents the exercise price multiplied by the
number of options that each employee exercised.
c. Firms structure stock option plans so that a period of time elapses between the
grant date and the date the option becomes in the money (defined as the exercise
d. Eli Lilly states that the nonvested stock option expense of $397.5 million will be
amortized over the remaining service period of two years. Thus, $49.7 million
for the quarter as well, based on the vesting term of the grants.