The Compensation Committee Handbook

The Compensation Committee Handbook
Author: James F. Reda
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118417186

New and updated information on the laws and regulationsaffecting executive compensation Now in a thoroughly updated Fourth Edition, The CompensationCommittee Handbook provides a comprehensive review of thecomplex issues challenging compensation committees that facerevised executive compensation disclosure regulations issued by theSEC, as well as GAAP and IFRS rulings and trends. This new andupdated edition addresses a full range of functional issues facingcompensation committees, including organizing, planning, and bestpractices tips. Looks at the latest regulations impacting executivecompensation, including new regulations issued by the SEC, as wellas GAAP and IFRS rulings and trends Covers the selection and training of compensation committeemembers Explores how to make compensation committees a performancedriver for a company Guides documentation requirements and timing issues The Compensation Committee Handbook, Fourth Edition willhelp all compensation committee members and interestedprofessionals succeed in melding highly complex technicalinformation and concepts with both corporate governance principlesand sound business judgment.

A Practical Guide to Compensation Committee Service

A Practical Guide to Compensation Committee Service
Author: Eric Hosken
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780986185809

Compensation Committees are increasingly under external scrutiny with Say on Pay and the new threats of shareholder lawsuits related to Say on Pay. For new and incumbent Compensation Committee members, it is more important than ever that they get things "right". For many directors, service on the Compensation Committee may be somewhat foreign to them. While they might have interacted with the Committee occasionally as an executive, it is unlikely that Compensation was a primary area of their focus. In order to help Committee members learn from the experience of others, we have developed this guide to address key aspects of Compensation Committee service. The guide has been developed based on interviews with current and former Compensation Committee chairs at major U.S. public companies, as well as over 100 years of combined experience as consultants advising Compensation Committees on all aspects of executive and director compensation.The focus of this guide is not on the technical aspects of Executive Compensation design. Instead, our emphasis is on understanding how effective Compensation Committees structure their activities to effectively address their responsibilities. Not all effective Compensation Committees use the same process or approach, but there are key characteristics that they share. In each chapter, we will reference real experiences from our interviews and our experiences as advisors to illustrate what Committees need to do and need to avoid to get it "right".

The Compensation Committee Handbook

The Compensation Committee Handbook
Author: James F. Reda
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2008-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470233222

NEW AND UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS AFFECTING EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION Now in a thoroughly updated Third Edition, Compensation Committee Handbook provides a comprehensive review of the complex issues facing compensation committees in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley. This new and updated edition addresses a full range of functional issues facing compensation committees, including organizing, planning, and best practices tips. As the responsibilities of the compensation committee continue to increase, the need for practical and comprehensive material has become even more imperative. Complete with compliance advice on the latest rules and regulations that have developed since the publication of the last edition, Compensation Committee Handbook, Third Edition provides the most up-to-date and reliable information on: * The latest regulations impacting executive compensation, including new regulations issued by the SEC, recently revised GAAP accounting rules, and the just-finalized IRS regulations impacting the taxation of stock options * The roles and responsibilities of the compensation committee, including best practice tips and techniques * Selecting and training compensation committee members * How to make compensation committees a performance driver for a company * Practical applications, including incentive compensation and equity-based compensation Compensation Committee Handbook, Third Edition will help all compensation committee members and interested professionals succeed in melding highly complex technical information and concepts with both corporate governance principles and sound business judgment.

The Handbook of Board Governance

The Handbook of Board Governance
Author: Richard Leblanc
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 888
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118895509

Build a more effective board with insight from the forefront of corporate governance The Handbook of Board Governance provides comprehensive, expert-led coverage of all aspects of corporate governance for public, nonprofit, and private boards. Written by collaboration among subject matter experts, this book combines academic rigor and practitioner experience to provide thorough guidance and deep insight. From diversity, effectiveness, and responsibilities, to compensation, succession planning, and financial literacy, the topics are at once broad-ranging and highly relevant to current and aspiring directors. The coverage applies to governance at public companies, private and small or medium companies, state-owned enterprises, family owned organizations, and more, to ensure complete and clear guidance on a diverse range of issues. An all-star contributor list including Ram Charan, Bob Monks, Nell Minow, and Mark Nadler, among others, gives you the insight of thought leaders in the areas relevant to your organization. A well-functioning board is essential to an organization’s achievement. Whether the goal is furthering a mission or dominating a market, the board’s composition, strategy, and practices are a determining factor in the organization’s ultimate success. This guide provides the information essential to building a board that works. Delve into the board’s strategic role in value creation Gain useful insight into compensation, risk, accountability, legal obligations Understand the many competencies required of an effective director Get up to speed on blind spots, trendspotting, and social media in the board room The board is responsible for a vast and varied collection of duties, but the singular mission is to push the organization forward. Poor organization, one-sided composition, inefficient practices, and ineffective oversight detract from that mission, but all can be avoided. The Handbook of Board Governance provides practical guidance and expert insight relevant to board members across the spectrum.

The Compensation Handbook

The Compensation Handbook
Author: Lance A. Berger
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2000-01-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780071378956

Straight answers to your compensation questions An A-to-Z guide to compensation strategy and design, Compensation Handbook, Fourth Edition, has been completely revised and updated to keep you on top of the important changes that have taken place in this area. Editors Lance A. Berger and Dorothy R. Berger have assembled articles by leading compensation practitioners to give you authoritative solutions to a wide range of specific compensation problems. This important new edition shares with you the best thinking on attracting and retaining outstanding employees in a tight market...executive compensation...computers and compensation...how to use a mix of compensation devices...and much, much more.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Pay Without Performance

Pay Without Performance
Author: Lucian A. Bebchuk
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674020634

The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have persistently failed to negotiate at arm's length with the executives they are meant to oversee. They give a richly detailed account of how pay practices--from option plans to retirement benefits--have decoupled compensation from performance and have camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity of pay. Executives' unwonted influence over their compensation has hurt shareholders by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly, by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers' incentives. This book identifies basic problems with our current reliance on boards as guardians of shareholder interests. And the solution, the authors argue, is not merely to make these boards more independent of executives as recent reforms attempt to do. Rather, boards should also be made more dependent on shareholders by eliminating the arrangements that entrench directors and insulate them from their shareholders. A powerful critique of executive compensation and corporate governance, Pay without Performance points the way to restoring corporate integrity and improving corporate performance.

Compensation Committee Handbook

Compensation Committee Handbook
Author: James F. Reda
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2004-10-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471698407

This Second Edition provides a comprehensive review of the issues facing compensation committees and covers functional issues such as organising, planning, and best practice tips. Compliance advice on the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations is addressed along with new requirements on disclosures of financial transactions involving management and principal stockholders.

Compensation Committee Handbook

Compensation Committee Handbook
Author: James F. Reda
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-12-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471389804

The Compensation Committee Handbook is a practical, how-to reference for providing requisite knowledge of a compensation committee?s role and responsibilities, best practices and business strategies, and fundamental operational procedures, including self-assessment. Every aspect is covered here, including forming a compensation committee with associated responsibilities, selecting and training members, conducting effective meetings, keeping members abreast of current trends and events, and providing the best compensation programs given a company?s short- and long-term business strategies. All the essential information regarding finance, compensation, legal issues, and the recruitment and training of directors is conveniently brought together in this single, easy-to-use volume. Presented in four parts, the first section outlines the fundamental responsibilities of each compensation committee member, as well as the framework of accounting, tax, securities rules, and the basics of compensation programs. Section two covers five current issues: change-in-control agreements, option repricing, reload stock options, pooling of interests accounting, and new accounting rules. The third section examines strategies for positioning the compensation committee as a performance-enhancing tool. The final section is a comprehensive resource of rules and regulations, comparison charts to monitor progress, and resources to provide information and training to the committee. Be it a small company forming a compensation committee or a large company that needs the latest strategies to help its board of directors? discharge fiduciary responsibility to the stockholders, The Compensation Committee Handbook is indispensable to corporate directors and compensation committee members, corporate secretaries, general counsel, CEOs, CFOs, and human resources executives. Written in a practical style, this handbook provides comprehensive guidance to compensation committee members and their advisors on how to maximize the potential of the committee. It analyzes the latest trends in CEO compensation for small, mid- and large-sized businesses and helps compensation committees meld technical information with sound business judgement. "Jim Reda has written an excellent and a remarkably thorough handbook for compensation committees of boards of directors. It is certain to become a well-worn volume on the bookshelves not only of compensation committee members, but also of CEO's, board chairmen, CFO's and corporate secretaries. I highly recommend this book to the 4000 members of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. It is an indispensable guide and resource for good corporate governance."--(David W. Smith, President American Society of Corporate Secretaries, Inc.) "Every board member is interested in how to be more efficient and effective in compensation decision-making. James Reda has impressive consulting and research credentials for enlightening directors on this matter. His new book presents both the fundamental concepts and practical strategies of 'best practices' compensation in a way that will boost the performance of any compensation committee."--(James Kristie, Editor Directors & Boards)

Corporate Secretary's Answer Book

Corporate Secretary's Answer Book
Author: Cynthia M. Krus
Publisher: Aspen Publishers Online
Total Pages: 1148
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0735550220

The Corporate Secretary's Answer Book is the only comprehensive, single-volume reference to address the specific tasks corporate secretaries face on a daily basis in a Q&A format. Every topic is conveniently listed for easy reference with an index organized by commonly used terms. With all of this valuable "know-how" located within one volume, corporate secretaries will be able to find the best way to proceed with any particular matter, quickly and confidently. The Corporate Secretary's Answer Book also includes sample forms and checklists that offer step-by-step guidance to completing each phase of the corporate secretary's duties throughout the year, especially under Sarbanes-Oxley, including: Conduct of Shareholder Meeting Guidelines - Annual Meeting Script - Minutes of Incentive Committee Meeting - Establishing a Special Litigation Committee of the Board - Audit Committee Charter - Corporate Governance Listing Standards - Corporate Governance Guidelines - Corporate Disclosure - and much more!