On November 1, 2021, Olympic plc adopted a share-option plan that granted options to key executives to purchase 40,000 shares of the company’s £10 par value ordinary shares. The options were granted on January 2, 2022, and were vested 2 years after the date of grant if the grantee was still an employee of the company. The options expired 6 years from date of grant. The option price was set at £40, and the fair value option-pricing model determines the total compensation expense to be £600,000.

All of the options were exercised during the year 2024: 30,000 on January 3 when the market price was £67, and 10,000 on May 1 when the market price was £77 a share.

Instructions

Prepare journal entries relating to the share-option plan for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024. Assume that the employees perform services equally in 2022 and 2023.