http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/apples-revealing-8k/ Morningstar's guide to what's hiding in SEC filings Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/apples-revealing-8k/comment-page-1/#comment-7367 HJ Mann Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:32:44 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3218#comment-7367 I see the irony in the 8K, but as a practical matter, more documentation is better than less. I see the irony in the 8K, but as a practical matter, more documentation is better than less.

]]> http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/apples-revealing-8k/comment-page-1/#comment-7354 Michelle Leder Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:11:04 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3218#comment-7354 No problem -- just thought it seemed a bit silly, given how much attention the news got over the past few days. No problem — just thought it seemed a bit silly, given how much attention the news got over the past few days.

]]> http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/apples-revealing-8k/comment-page-1/#comment-7351 John Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:58:53 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3218#comment-7351 What's the problem? Apple was required to follow an 8K and they did so. This is news? What’s the problem? Apple was required to follow an 8K and they did so. This is news?

]]> http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/apples-revealing-8k/comment-page-1/#comment-7348 David C Fischer Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:59:47 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3218#comment-7348 Although silly, I don't have any beef with the 8-K being filed timely, i.e., delayed, relative to the news release, but Apple and Jobs seemed to be treated with kid gloves, by the press and regulators, re Jobs's and APPL's claim during the backdating scandal that he was unaware of the accounting consequences. If there is one thing I've found that CEO's understand intimately, it is the accounting, as well as the tax, consequences of their stock options. I can't imagine Gates' trying to get away with such a claim or that MSFT's board would have been given the benefit of the doubt the way APPL's has been, in analogous circumstances, if Gates had gotten sick when he was running MSFT. Although silly, I don’t have any beef with the 8-K being filed timely, i.e., delayed, relative to the news release, but Apple and Jobs seemed to be treated with kid gloves, by the press and regulators, re Jobs’s and APPL’s claim during the backdating scandal that he was unaware of the accounting consequences. If there is one thing I’ve found that CEO’s understand intimately, it is the accounting, as well as the tax, consequences of their stock options. I can’t imagine Gates’ trying to get away with such a claim or that MSFT’s board would have been given the benefit of the doubt the way APPL’s has been, in analogous circumstances, if Gates had gotten sick when he was running MSFT.

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