Standard & Poor's Eyes Corporate Earnings.(will use research to show core earnings from companies' primary operations)(Brief Article)
Kiplinger's Retirement Report, August, 2002
STANDARD & POOR'S EYESCORPORATE EARNINGS
I read that Standard & Poor's (S&P) has changed the way it measures the operating earnings of companies. Can you tell me the details?
After nearly a year of discussions with securities and accounting experts, mutual fund managers, and academics, S&P said in May that it will take the reported earnings of publicly traded companies and adjust them to show each firm's core earnings from its primary operations. The adjusted earnings should give investors a better tool with which to estimate what the future earnings might be for a company's core business. Among other things, core earnings will:
Exclude gains in pension plans.
Treat employee stock-option grants as an expense.
Cut out...
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