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2004 represented by stock options granted, net of cancellations, during the year ended December 31, 2004. A
substantial portion of our stock options granted during the year were granted to new employees.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Share-Based Payment
In December 2004, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised
2004), ""Share-Based Payment'' (FAS 123R) that addresses the accounting for share-based payment
transactions in which an enterprise receives employee services in exchange for either equity instruments of the
enterprise or liabilities that are based on the fair value of the enterprise's equity instruments or that may be
settled by the issuance of such equity instruments. The statement eliminates the ability to account for share-
based compensation transactions, as we do currently, using the intrinsic value method prescribed by
Accounting Principles Board, or APB, Opinion No. 25, ""Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees,'' and
generally requires that such transactions be accounted for using a fair-value-based method and recognized as
expenses in our consolidated statement of income. The statement requires companies to assess the most
appropriate model to calculate the value of the options. We currently use the Black-Scholes option pricing
model to value options and are currently assessing which model we may use in the future under the new
statement and may deem an alternative model to be more appropriate. The use of a different model to value
options may result in a different fair value than the use of the Black-Scholes option pricing model. In addition,
there are a number of other requirements under the new standard that would result in differing accounting
treatment than currently required. These differences include, but are not limited to, the accounting for the tax
benefit on employee stock options and for stock issued under our employee stock purchase plan, and the
presentation of these tax benefits within the consolidated statement of cash flows. In addition to the
appropriate fair value model to be used for valuing share-based payments, we will also be required to
determine the transition method to be used at date of adoption. The allowed transition methods are the
prospective and retroactive adoption alternatives. The prospective method requires that compensation expense
be recorded for all unvested stock options and restricted stock at the beginning of the first quarter of adoption
of FAS 123R, while the retroactive method requires companies to record compensation expense for all
unvested stock options and restricted stock beginning with the first disclosed period restated.
In April 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the adoption of a new rule that
amends the effective date of FAS 123R. The effective date of the new standard under these new rules for our
consolidated financial statements is January 1, 2006. Adoption of this statement will have a significant impact
on our consolidated financial statements as we will be required to expense the fair value of our stock option
grants and stock purchases under our employee stock purchase plan rather than disclose the impact on our
consolidated net income within our footnotes, as is our current practice (see ""Note 1 Ì The Company and
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies'' of the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements
contained herein).
The amounts disclosed within our footnotes are not necessarily indicative of the amounts that will be
expensed upon the adoption of FAS 123R. We expect the compensation charges under FAS 123R to reduce
earnings per diluted share by approximately $0.16 to $0.17 per share for the year ending December 31, 2006.
Compensation expense calculated under FAS 123R may differ from amounts currently disclosed within our
footnotes and may differ from our expectations based on changes in the fair value of our common stock,
changes in the number of options granted or the terms of such options, the treatment of tax benefits, and
changes in interest rates or other factors. In addition, upon adoption of FAS 123R, we may choose to use a
different valuation model to value the compensation expense associated with employee stock options and stock
purchases under our employee stock purchase plan.
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