a. How does the offering of stock options to CEOs attempt to align CEO incentives with shareholder incentives?b. Enron was a company that was ruined in part because of the stock options offered to upper management. Explain.c. In addition to accounting reforms, how might stock options be changed to try to prevent situations like what happened at Enron from occurring in the future?

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