The Stock Options Book, Seventh Edition - Softcover

Alisa Baker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932924191 ISBN 13: 9781932924190

Publisher: National Center for Employee Ownership, 2006

Synopsis

In recent years, the level of legal, accounting, and regulatory complexity associated with employee stock options has only grown. This book, written by attorney Alisa Baker, a leading equity compensation expert, presents a straightforward, comprehensive overview of both the big-picture issues and the technical details related to designing and implementing stock option plans. The book also looks at "hot" issues and provides illustrative exhibits, a glossary, a bibliography, and primary source materials, plus a seminal article by Corey Rosen on plan design. The seventh edition incorporates changes made in prior updates and supplementary materials, and covers the latest developments in the equity compensation field. There are new chapters on stock-related legislation, case law, and accounting. Additionally, the book has been reorganized for easier navigation and comprehension, and material has been segmented into shorter chapters, with endnotes at the end of each chapter rather than at the end of the book.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This book is a required text for the Certified Equity Professional (CEP) program, the nationwide (U.S.), industry-standard program run by the Certified Equity Professional Institute at Santa Clara University in California's Silicon Valley.

From the Author:

This book is intended to give the reader a general overview of how stock options are used in the United States to reward employees for their participation in and commitment to the success of the employer corporation (referred to variously here as the "company" or the "employer"). Stock options are but one of several forms of equity incentives, which may range from outright gifts of stock to specialized restricted stock purchase arrangements. For the sake of keeping this discussion focused, these other forms of equity incentives are not covered here. There are two basic kinds of stock options: (1) "qualified" or "statutory" stock options, including incentive stock options (ISOs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) options, which are specific creatures of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and (2) all other stock options, called "nonstatutory" or "nonqualified" stock options (NSOs). This book will carefully examine the tax aspects of employee stock options and cite appropriate authority on tax issues. However, although the primary focus of this text is on taxation and design issues related to taxation, the day has long passed when the equity compensation planner could feel free to review tax aspects of employee stock options in a vacuum. Such options are increasingly subject to a complex web of rules regarding their creation and exercise that are unrelated to the Code, including federal and state securities laws, accounting principles, and local (foreign) country laws governing grants made to employees resident outside of the United States. Therefore, as appropriate, this book gives an overview of how non-tax rules apply and indicates the types of issues raised by the interaction of these rules. Readers should note that the non-tax discussion is intended to provide only general planning guidance; where appropriate, I have provided references to authoritative sources on these subjects.

About this edition

• Publisher: National Center for Employee Ownership
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932924191
• ISBN 13: 9781932924190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362