In a gross oversight, stock options are not carried on the balance sheet as an expense, as they should be.  Ironically enough, the IRS allows a company to treat them as an expense.  Tech Giant CISCO paid almost no income tax last year because it issued so many options... so if they IRS counts it as a deducible expense, why aren't shareholders given reported earnings with options priced in?  Because if they were treated like the expense they are, CEOs would not be awarded such disgustingly high salary packages  Continue quiz>