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Accounting changes to affect Apple earnings

Reuters reports that Apple is one of the top tech companies to be hit hardest by a Federal Accounting Standards Board decision to require companies to treat stock options as expenses. According to Credit Suisse First Boston, Apple’s earnings of 19 cents per share would have been reduced by 46 cents, or 242 percent, had the new rule been in effect in 2003.

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