RE: AGM19 Jun 2022 17:18
Once a company has established the value of its share awards and the period over which they should be amortised, the amortised value for each accounting period should be charged to the company's income statement, with the other side of the transaction being a credit to an employee share reserve in the balance sheet.
The accounting standards do not call for the share awards to be revalued each year; once a value has been arrived at on grant, that will be the basis for all of the subsequent accounting entries.
If an employee's share award lapses during the amortisation period, the value of his or her award will be taken out of the annual amortisation charge; it does not get written back to the income statement.
When share awards vest, or options are exercised, the employee share reserve is written back to the retained earnings reserve through the balance sheet.