stock-based

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.