Why is stock based compensation expense considered a non-cash expense?
When a company records stock-based compensation expense, there isn’t an actual cash outflow. As you can see in the journal entry below, the company doesn’t actually credit cash to fund the stock option expense. Instead, the company funds the stock option expense by issuing more common stock.
An example of another type of non-cash expense would be depreciation expense.
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