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    k taxes owed to IRS, Fines by SEC $15 M 6 Legal fees Defending lawsuits on backdating $20M Subtotal For each company, $500M revenue $79.5M Assuming 50 companies Completely go over the end to end process $3.975B

    Assuming remaining companies Remaining companies only go over steps 1 & 3 $1.75 B

    The other part of the economic impact stems from losses in market capitalization. If you estimate cu

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    First the assumptions:

    1. # of companies that actually are investigated or asked by the SEC (currenty June 03 is 42) by June 2006 = 100

    2. # of companies that will complete the 3 step process of preliminary investigation, comprehensive audit and finally restatement of results (approximately at 30-50%) = 40

    3. Approximate amount of time spent performing the initial investigation = 4-6 weeks.

    4. Approximate time spent doing comprehensive audit = 20-32 weeks

    5. Costs in back taxes, delisting, restatement, defending lawsuits & fines = 30% of cumulative value of option grants

    6. Size of company assumed on average: $500M in revenues, 2500 employees, 25+ grants under inquiry

    7. Grant value net = $15M per incident

    If you want to do your own analysis (how much will this cost my company), feel free to use some of these estimations.

    # Expense Item Description Cost

    1 Initial Investigation Typically done by Board & Audit team $1.5 M   2 Communication expenses Economic impact of communication loss to company $4M   3 Audit fees Formal investigation fees for auditors $30M   4 Restatement costs Includes delisting, cost of documentation,  $9 M   5 Taxes and fines Back taxes owed to IRS, Fines by SEC $15 M   6 Legal fees Defending lawsuits on backdating $20M  Subtotal For each company, $500M revenue $79.5M  Assuming 50 companies  Completely go over the end to end process $3.975B

    Assuming remaining companies Remaining companies only go over steps 1 & 3 $1.75 B

    The other part of the economic impact stems from losses in market capitalization. If you estimate cur
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    First the assumptions:

    1. # of companies that actually are investigated or asked by the SEC (currenty June 03 is 42) by June 2006 = 100

    2. # of companies that will complete the 3 step process of preliminary investigation, comprehensive audit and finally restatement of results (approximately at 30-50%) = 40

    3. Approximate amount of time spent performing the initial investigation = 4-6 weeks.

    4. Approximate time spent doing comprehensive audit = 20-32 weeks

    5. Costs in back taxes, delisting, restatement, defending lawsuits & fines = 30% of cumulative value of option grants

    6. Size of company assumed on average: $500M in revenues, 2500 employees, 25+ grants under inquiry

    7. Grant value net = $15M per incident

    If you want to do your own analysis (how much will this cost my company), feel free to use some of these estimations.

    # Expense Item Description Cost

    1 Initial Investigation Typically done by Board & Audit team $1.5 M   2 Communication expenses Economic impact of communication loss to company $4M   3 Audit fees Formal investigation fees for auditors $30M   4 Restatement costs Includes delisting, cost of documentation,  $9 M   5 Taxes and fines Back taxes owed to IRS, Fines by SEC $15 M   6 Legal fees Defending lawsuits on backdating $20M  Subtotal For each company, $500M revenue $79.5M  Assuming 50 companies  Completely go over the end to end process $3.975B

    Assuming remaining companies Remaining companies only go over steps 1 & 3 $1.75 B

    The other part of the economic impact stems from losses in market capitalization. If you estimate cu
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    4. Approximate time spent doing comprehensive audit = 20-32 weeks

    5. Costs in back taxes, delisting, restatement, defending lawsuits & fines = 30% of cumulative value of option grants

    6. Size of company assumed on average: $500M in revenues, 2500 employees, 25+ grants under inquiry

    7. Grant value net = $15M per incident

    If you want to do your own analysis (how much will this cost my company), feel free to use some of these estimations.

    # Expense Item Description Cost

    1 Initial Investigation Typically done by Board & Audit team $1.5 M   2 Communication expenses Economic impact of communication loss to company $4M   3 Audit fees Formal investigation fees for auditors $30M   4 Restatement costs Includes delisting, cost of documentation,  $9 M   5 Taxes and fines Back taxes owed to IRS, Fines by SEC $15 M   6 Legal fees Defending lawsuits on backdating $20M  Subtotal For each company, $500M revenue $79.5M  Assuming 50 companies  Completely go over the end to end process $3.975B

    Assuming remaining companies Remaining companies only go over steps 1 & 3 $1.75 B

    The other part of the economic impact stems from losses in market capitalization. If you estimate cu
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    this cost my company), feel free to use some of these estimations.

    # Expense Item Description Cost

    1 Initial Investigation Typically done by Board & Audit team $1.5 M   2 Communication expenses Economic impact of communication loss to company $4M   3 Audit fees Formal investigation fees for auditors $30M   4 Restatement costs Includes delisting, cost of documentation,  $9 M   5 Taxes and fines Back taxes owed to IRS, Fines by SEC $15 M   6 Legal fees Defending lawsuits on backdating $20M  Subtotal For each company, $500M revenue $79.5M  Assuming 50 companies  Completely go over the end to end process $3.975B

    Assuming remaining companies Remaining companies only go over steps 1 & 3 $1.75 B

    The other part of the economic impact stems from losses in market capitalization. If you estimate cu
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    k taxes owed to IRS, Fines by SEC $15 M 6 Legal fees Defending lawsuits on backdating $20M Subtotal For each company, $500M revenue $79.5M Assuming 50 companies Completely go over the end to end process $3.975B

    Assuming remaining companies Remaining companies only go over steps 1 & 3 $1.75 B

    The other part of the economic impact stems from losses in market capitalization. If you estimate currently (42 companies) lost over $63 Billion in Market capitalization (United Healthcare itself accounted for over 30% of this number) over the last 9 months. Assume that will be 50% less (since the bad news is out) for the remaining 50+ companies. The impact is another $31B. We also did a detailed analysis on this portion of the impact. Total Impact of Stock Option Backdating ~ $100 Billion.

    For each company approximately = $50 to $100 Million in expenses.

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