Publications on Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
This short and inexpensive book is our best-selling publication. It explains how ESOPs work in a clear and concise manner.
Extensive coverage of financing in a leveraged ESOP transaction, plus legal, valuation, and accounting issues.
Covers tax issues, plan design, compliance, administration, valuation, and more.
A detailed guide for owners, managers, and advisors of closely held businesses are who considering a sale to an ESOP.
A general, basic guide to ESOPs for public and private companies alike.
Discusses corporate governance in ESOP companies.
Essays and new survey data on the issues surrounding executive compensation in ESOP companies.
Covers the legal issues related to ESOP fiduciaries in a question-and-answer format, with almost 150 detailed entries.
A practical guide for board members in ESOP companies that discusses crucial issues and best practices.
An essential resource for any inside fiduciary at an ESOP company.
How to move from being a company of employees to a company of owners.
Dozens of practical ideas for creating a great employee ownership company through nurturing a true ownership culture.
A complete guide to developing and improving ESOP committees, with case studies.
Shows ESOP companies how to communicate the plan to employees as well as customers.
Essays on administrative issues for ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) companies.
True stories illustrating common mistakes in implementing and operating an ESOP and what to do about them.
Categorizes and summarizes litigation over company stock in ESOPs and 401(k) plans.
Categorizes and summarizes IRS and DOL rulings and regulations on ESOPs and related plans.
Essays on valuing company stock for ESOP purposes.
A model ESOP document with alternative provisions and detailed explanations. Includes CD.
Essays and survey results on the ESOP repurchase obligation and how companies deal with it.
A booklet on valuation issues for ESOP companies.
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Analyzes judicial and regulatory developments affecting ESOPs and 401(k) plans with company stock throughout 2011.
Explains the complex issues relating to insurance for ESOP and other benefit plan fiduciaries.
Three case studies written by company leaders who implemented their ESOPs in very different ways, plus an analysis placing these in context.
Discusses the issues that arise when a company sponsors both an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and a 401(k) plan.
Covers IRS and DOL audits and voluntary compliance programs for ESOP companies.
An issue brief with sample policies and general considerations for drafting an ESOP distribution policy.
Articles on issues related to ESOP valuation, ranging from valuing SARs in an ESOP company to valuing an accounting firm's shares.
Discusses how price protection works, its impact on valuation, and fiduciary perspectives.
Discusses how U.S. ESOP companies can provide ownership to international employees through the ESOP itself or other means.
An issue brief examining best practices in developing new leaders and succession planning.
Discusses legal issues for ESOP fiduciary insurance and practical considerations in buying a policy.
Discusses long-term incentive plans (ranging from cash incentives to equity compensation) and all the issues surrounding their use in ESOP companies, including S corporations.
Describes both best practices in responding to unsolicited offers to buy an ESOP company as well as what happens when you do want to sell.
Describes potential problems and their solutions for S corporation ESOPs.
Describes how to sell a business directly to employees without an ESOP, including structuring, financing, legal issues, and more.
Summarizes the results of NCEO surveys of ESOP executive compensation and private company equity compensation.
A guide to how ESOP distributions work, what participants can expect, and what their rights are.
Discusses how valuations work, special ESOP considerations, and how to communicate valuations to employees.
Publications on Equity Compensation
A detailed guide to equity compensation alternatives. Includes annotated model plan documents in word-processing formats.
A guide to creating equity compensation arrangements for limited liability companies (LLCs). Includes model plan documents.
How to extend stock options, ESPPs, and other plans to a global workforce.
A detailed look at some of the main topics in equity compensation. Includes a comprehensive chapter on ESPPs.
How to find and implement an equity compensation strategy that works for your company.
A comprehensive guide to employee stock options, with extensive technical details.
Discusses regulatory and administrative issues for ESPPs, including practical examples and the financial cost of design features.
Discusses issues such as grant processes, transactions, and taxes for public companies that grant equity compensation outside the U.S.
Discusses the strategic and practical issues of participant communication in a variety of types of equity plans, from ESPPs to options.
Discusses administration, financial reporting, and communication issues for public companies that grant performance awards.
Discusses regulatory and administrative issues for public companies that grant restricted stock and restricted stock units.
Checklists and templates to help private companies manage equity plans and delegate tasks.
A guide to accounting for stock options, ESPPs, SARs, restricted stock, and other such plans.
A selective and detailed examination of crucial issues in equity compensation accounting.
A quick reference guide to equity compensation in the form of four double-sided laminated sheets.
True stories illustrating common mistakes in implementing and operating equity compensation plans and what to do about them.
Sample plan documents and brief explanations for employee stock option and stock purchase plans (includes CD).
A book with source documents for those working with equity compensation.
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Covers private company liquidity programs, SEC simplified method transition considerations, and forfeiture rates under ASC 718.
A comprehensive overview of the deferred compensation rules under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.
Publications on Ownership Concepts and Research
Takes a broad look at how incentives can motivate and reward.
A compilation of articles by NCEO cofounder Corey Rosen on what makes a great employee ownership company.
A book designed to enable employees, regardless of their experience as trainers, to teach basic financial skills to coworkers.
Discusses 14 paradoxes that define Charles Edmunson's philosophy of leadership.
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Summarizes research on the subject, mainly on ESOP companies.
A report on the growth and current extent of employee ownership, research findings, and challenges and prospects.
Newsletters for Members
In addition to the publications listed above, we publish two newsletters exclusively for members:
Published every two months, the 16-page
Employee Ownership Report is the most efficient way to stay informed about legal issues, current events, best practices, breaking research, management approaches, and communications ideas for employee ownership companies. Members receive a hard-copy version, and our
members area has a searchable archive of issues in PDF format back to 1997.
Download a sample issue.
Published in PDF format in the
members area of our site, the
Equity Compensation Report fills an information gap: there is much information on equity compensation for key employees in public companies, but little for companies with broad-based equity plans and less still on equity compensation plans in private companies. Each issue includes news updates, ideas on plan design, and more.
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