Three recent surveys provide information on how companies will react to requirements that options, ESPPs, and other equity awards be shown as an expense on their income statements.
The staff of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo proposed that the newspaper become a worker cooperative, partly in order to give its entire staff a voice in how the newspaper uses the substantial profits it has earned from the spike in sales following the attacks on its office on Januar
A common assumption in the stock options debate is that expensing will drive down the prices of companies that provide options in a more than nominal way, and will be especially hard on companies with substantial options grants.
1996 tax law changes are unlikely to create many new ESOPs in Subchapter S companies. That's the conclusion reached by Bob Stiles of Liberty Check Printers in Mounds View, MN, the first Subchapter S company to set up an ESOP after the new law was passed.
The financial reform legislation requires non-binding shareholder votes on executive pay; more stringent rules for the independence of compensation consultants; the expansion of existing stock exchange rules prohibiting brokers from voting uninstructed shares held in street names on some issues t
A new study of the Wall Street Journal 350 by William M. Mercer shows that 10.6% of these large companies have broad stock option plans to which they either have made allocations or will this year.
In a press release issued on April 30, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it had reached an agreement with Wilmington Trust "to pay a combined $80 million to 21 employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for which it serv
Winning Workplaces and the Wall Street Journal will hold their annual conference to honor the 15 top "winning workplaces" for 2008 in Chicago October 14-15. Last year, five of the winners were NCEO members, and employee ownership will again be on the agenda this year.
