Last week, the company said it would take $42 million in charges relating to the backdating of options.

The Act included a provision to prohibit the backdating of a lease.

He is the first person to have been convicted for fraudulent backdating of corporate stock options.

In the mid-aughts, the backdating of stock options was looked into by federal regulators.

Those inquiries mainly center on the backdating of the price at which options could be exercised.

Hanging over the deal is the investigation into Mercury's possible involvement in the backdating of options given to some employees.

To account for the backdating, Apple restated its financial reporting back to 2002 and took an $84 million charge.

(Under Regulation 72, unlimited backdating can be made in cases of official error).

But the backdating of options was only part of the plan at Comverse.

The report said a supervisor at the Manhattan office had ordered the backdating of reports, which are supposed to be filed monthly.

The backdating may not be fair play.

Greedy backdating of stock options, which in my opinion is straight-up theft.

A sweeping investigation into the backdating of stock options at more than 100 companies has so far led to relatively few enforcement actions or resolutions.

Federal securities regulators said yesterday that they would bring no civil charges against Apple over the backdating of executive stock options.

Mr. Ryan's office has been investigating the backdating of stock options granted to corporate executives.

That appears to have been the case with the backdating of stock options, according to a new statistical study of publicly traded American companies.

The company settled an investor lawsuit in 2009 over allegations of improper backdating of stock options.

The company refused to give any further details, but a spokesman said it did not involve the backdating of options, a problem affecting many technology companies.

"We do not believe that any director or officer of the company has engaged in the intentional backdating of stock options grants," it added.

Biomet's top management had been shuffled several times, and the company was mired in a scandal over the backdating of stock options.

With the recent backdating of Man's appearance in North America, their ancestors go back a long way.'

There is a growing scandal involving the backdating of stock options by dozens of companies, and already lawsuits are mounting.

Such insight could be valuable, because a company's stock typically drops when previously undisclosed backdating is belatedly made known.

Because of the backdating of records, the investigators said they were unable to determine the precise sequence of events.

Still, compensation specialists say that bottom-of-the-trough pricing methods raise troubling questions about disclosure practices, including potential backdating.

God knows what it had cost them to backdate the place like that.

They might try to backdate some of those payments, too.

This is because any increase to your payments can only be backdated by up to three months.

They suggest that the order was created only after the attack, then backdated.

Prosecutors are now investigating more than 80 companies for backdating.

The question became whether the 1985 letter was genuine or written later and backdated.

Applying early for these is important - any claims can only be backdated by three months.

His promotion to Lieutenant in 1878 was backdated to 1876.

"It was obvious that information had been added and backdated," the report said.

Any claim can be backdated to the introduction of the tax on 1 April 2001.

The report found instances of backdating ranging from one to nine days.

But it's best to report changes like this straight away, as any increase in your payments can only be backdated by up to three months.

Well they're on about backdating it to the third.

People who study ragtime believe this may be another case of "backdating".

Companies that are caught backdating options, of course, have huge accounting problems.

Backdate home responsibilities protection to cover women coming up to retirement now.

It was passed in 1696 but backdated to the beginning of the parliamentary session.

The question he was trying to answer was: Are companies backdating options?

Analysts did not focus on the company's stock options backdating difficulties.

Cases of backdating employee stock options have drawn public and media attention.

He was promoted to lieutenant in 1948 (backdated to November 1947).

This is to make sure that you get your payments backdated to the earliest possible date.

How far payments can be backdated is also changing.

The increase was to be backdated to June 1 and would rise to 75 per cent by the last quarter of 1991.

Your pay will be adjusted and backdated to the beginning of the month.'

After some discussion on back-dating, the formula was accepted though it had only six months to live.

Degrees from a diploma mill can be obtained within a few days, weeks or months from the time of enrollment, and back-dating is possible.

He noted that the Romans, Christians and Jews all used back-dating to establish a Year 1 that had long since passed, and that none of them actually experienced as such.

This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company.

It cites a $7.5 million unauthorized corporate loan guarantee for a senior officer of the company, payment of more than $1.5 million in bonuses in the 1998 fiscal year to the executives and the alteration and back-dating of long-term incentive plan documents.

Fannie Mae, the nation's largest mortgage finance company, was suing its auditors last week for claiming they were negligent in helping to prepare financial statements that led to a $6.3 billion restatement of earnings, and The Wall Street Journal was uncovering a new scandal involving the improper back-dating of executive stock options.