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Fair-value analytical valuation of reset executive stock options consistent with IFRS9 requirements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2020

Otto Konstandatos
Otto Konstandatos*
Affiliation:
Finance Department, University of Technology Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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*Corresponding author. Email: otto.konstandatos@uts.edu.au
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Abstract

Executive stock options (ESOs) are widely used to reward employees and represent major items of corporate liability. The International Accounting Standards Board IFRS9 financial reporting standard which came into full effect on 1-Jan 2018, along with its Australian implementation AASB9, requires public corporations to report their fair-value cost in financial statements. Reset ESOs are typically issued to re-incentivise employees by allowing the option to be cancelled and re-issued with a lower exercise price or later maturity. We produce a novel analytical Reset ESO valuation consistent with the IFRS9 financial reporting standard incorporating the simultaneous resetting of vesting period, exercise window, reset level and maturity. We allow for voluntary and involuntary exercise. Our analytical result is expressed solely in terms of standardised European binary power option instruments. Using the multi-state mortality model of Hariyanto (2014, Mortality and disability modelling with an application to pricing a reverse mortgage contract, PhD thesis, University of Melbourne), we estimate longitudinal disability and death transition probabilities from cross-sectional data. We determine survival functions for pre-vesting forfeiture or post-vesting involuntary exercise for use with weighted portfolios of our formulae to illustrate the effect of survival on the fair value. We examine the IFRS9 method of valuation using expected time to option exercise and demonstrate a consistent overestimation of fair value of up to 27% for senior executives.

Keywords

Executive compensationExotic optionsResettingNon-life insurance liabilitiesIFRSM40G30G32J33
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Annals of Actuarial Science , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 188 - 218
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© Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 2020 

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