On 1 July 2021 Salt & Pepper Limited Granted 200

On 1 July 2021 Salt & Pepper Limited granted 200 share options to each of its 50 employees. Each grant is conditional on the employee working for the company for the next two years. The fair value of each option is estimated to be $8.00. Salt & Pepper estimates that 6% of its employees will leave during the two year period and therefore forfeit their rights to the share options. During the year ended 30 June 2022 five employees left. At this time the company revised its estimate of total employee departures over the full two-year period to 10%.
During the year ended 30 June 2023 a further 4 employees left.
The amount to be recognised as an expense by Salt & Pepper for the year ended 30 June 2022 is:

A) $36 000.
B) $72 000.
C) $40 000.
D) $80 000.

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