Stock Compensation

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Equity awards: grant-date fair value, expensed over requisite service period, never remeasured for price changes
Liability awards (cash-settled SARs): remeasured each period
Performance condition not met → reverse expense; market condition not met → do not reverse
Forfeitures: estimate or account for as they occur (policy election)
Modification → recognize incremental fair value plus remaining original cost