Usually, it makes a sensible analysis of the problem, and proposes what should be done: over a capital gains tax cut, for example, or stock-option accounting, or pension reform, or telecoms deregulation.

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The board could have informed Michael Dell that if he wanted to stay on as CEO he needed to claw-back his stock option gains attributable to the allegedly fraudulent accounting, but it did not.

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If investors, who usually prefer that comparable companies use the same accounting, ask Pepsi to show stock option expenses for 2002, grants made in the last quarter when Pepsi's stock was riding high would take earnings lower.

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Investors and regulators have been pushing firms to expense option grants, believing that more accurate accounting will quell abuses of stock options.

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