Pre-IPO? 4 Steps to Prepare Your Equity Plan for Audit
All pre-IPO and public companies must have their financial processes and statements audited by an independent auditor, and as a part of this process the auditor will examine your stock compensation plan. By doing some anticipatory work, you’ll be well prepared for the audit rather than relying on the auditor to uncover any issues that need to be addressed – potentially delaying the IPO process. Here are four things you can do now to avoid a problematic audit.
President Trump’s Tax-Reform Principles Could Affect Stock Compensation
During the last week of April, the Trump administration released general tax-reform principles in a one-page outline. Generally consistent with proposals Trump made during his election campaign, they include the following…
Certent Announces 30+% Increase in Year-over-Year Client Base and 25+% 4-Year Compound Annual Growth Rate
Certent’s focus on customer experience, including design-led UX/UI advances to its core product lines and investments into customer success and support teams are responsible for its rapid growth…
Certent announces sponsors, keynote speaker and charity event for 6th annual Summit
In just a few short weeks, Certent clients, partners, sponsors, and equity compensation thought leaders will come together in downtown Nashville, TN for the 6th annual Certent Summit. The event kicks off Monday, May 22nd with in-depth product training, networking, inspiring keynotes, and more.
Timing is Everything in Early ISO Exercise
How early is too early to exercise? If it were possible to exercise pre-vested incentive stock options, imagine the tax savings. One of the big concerns for those facing a wealth event in private company stock is taxes. Timing is everything in exercising stock options. If you manage your company’s equity plan, you need to know about early exercise of Incentive Stock Options.
Five Rules for Retiring Executives Tapping Company Stock
Whether planned or unplanned, retirement prior to age 65 may present an income gap until the qualifying age to receive pensions and Social Security. While stock administrators cannot offer financial planning advice, they need to know how taxation variables impact executives as they draw down company stock from a variety of accounts and compensation plans. The complexity surrounding stock-based compensation clouds the dilemma: Which funds should be drawn from to optimize the performance and minimize the tax consequences?
Year-End Prep: Equity Data to Reconcile and Audit
The cross-departmental nature of managing an equity plan can make gathering data and keeping up-to-date records a nightmare. There is no time more crucial than year-end to make sure you reconcile equity plan data across all of your internal stakeholders and departments.
Bill Before Congress Could Defer Taxes on Pre-IPO Options Exercise
Many private company employees holding stock options are looking for tax strategies prior to the company’s public offering. A lesser-known provision for pre-IPO options exercise allows employees holding ISO-options to lock in a lower pre-IPO price in order to minimize ordinary income taxes and start the capital gains period running during the pre-IPO period. Read on for more details surrounding HR 5719.
What Can Professional Athletes Teach Us About Taxes?
It’s not often that the worlds of professional sports and equity compensation intersect. True, I have a Google alert set up for “stock options” that sometimes returns articles about how the stock of football players impacts their career options (as in “Joe Schmo played really well in the last game; his stock is really rising”), but that’s not what I’m referring to. I’m talking about domestic mobility. While we are struggling with how compensation is taxed when employees travel from one state to another, this is an issue that professional sports has been dealing with for a long time now.
A New Advantage for XBRL Filers
It has been a common complaint with SEC filers that they don’t see the value in XBRL submissions. There has even been proposed legislation to reduce the requirements for XBRL filings. The distaste towards interactive data is most likely an aversion to change – frustration with the mandate taking time out of their reporting process coupled with the fact that XBRL provides streamlined transparency into disclosures. However, as the data continues to standardize we continue to see new uses for machine readable financials.
