Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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of compensation is not controlling to our determination of whether it is a wage. Gurnik v. Lee, 587 N.E.2d 706, 709 (Ind.Ct.App.1992). Rather, we will consider the substance of the compensation to determine whether it is subject to the Wage Payment Statute. Id. We have recognized that wages are "something akin to the wages paid on a regular periodic basis for regular work done by the employee." Wank v. St. Francis College, 740 N.E.2d 908, 912 (Ind.Ct.App.2000) (quotation and citation omitted), trams. denied. Deferred payment of compensation that accrued during an employee's tenure is a wage. Id. However, if the compensation is linked to the financial sue-cess of the employer, it is not a wage. See id.; see also Highhouse v. Midwest Orthopedic Inst., P.C., 807 N.E.2d 737, 740 (Ind.2004)  (quoting Pyle v. Nat'l Wine & Spirits Corp.,
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that an employer is accountable to a discharged employee for unpaid compensation if the employee was terminated in bad faith and the compensation is clearly connected to work already performed
B. holding that financial gain from compensation for professional services is not a sufficient motive for purposes of pleading scienter
C. holding that compensation is a wage if it is compensation for time worked and is not linked to a contingency such as the financial success of the company
D. holding that it is not
E. holding that the words amount and compensation in the regulation referred to cash or salary rather than to all forms of compensation
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.