compensation

The compensation expense related to employee stock options?Stock options and stock-based incentives have, for some time, been widely accepted as a means of employee compensation at all levels of employment. The popularity of stock-based incentives is evidenced by the fact that in 2003 nearly 20 million US employees participated in more than 15,000 stock-based incentive plans, while in Canada, as early as the 1990s, 67% of the largest Canadian public companies granted their executives stock options.

West Ham could be forced to pay up to £30 million (US$54 million; €37.8 million) to Sheffield United after losing a compensation claim over the Carlos Tevez transfer case.

Sheffield United was relegated at the end of the 2006-07 season, when the Hammers beat Manchester United on the final day of the campaign and Tevez scored the decisive goal. The result ensured that West Ham stayed in the Premier League while Sheffield United went down, losing millions in TV revenue and on ,.