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We collected and analyzed over 1,600 CEO pay ratio filings to take the pulse of trends and best practices from the country’s first adopters of this new regulation.

Participant communication can make or break the LTI program. In this issue brief, we discuss the various approaches that can help you improve your participant communication strategy.

If your company’s fiscal year ends on any date other than December 31, application of the new tax rate gets tricky. The reason? IRC Section 15(a).

FICA taxes are due on equity compensation when there is no longer a risk of forfeiture. Retirement eligibility is an often-overlooked trigger with many administration and accounting impacts to consider.

With preparation for 2018 proxies underway, we revisit 2017 proxies to highlight our favorite examples of using visualization to tell a clear and insightful CD&A story.

The IRS has given a bright line of February 15 to have your withholding procedures updated in line with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

In this article published in FEI Daily, we discuss the impact of tax reform on executive compensation and performance goal measurement.

Just in time for the new year, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which presents the most sweeping changes to the tax code in decades. Here’s a look at the apparent effects to equity compensation.

Does your company have outstanding financial instruments with down round protection features? FASB may have saved you a lot of work.

While CEO pay ratio has dominated discussions in 2017, a much larger emerging issue is pay equity—statistically studying compensation throughout an organization to make sure there are no unexplainable differences linked to gender, race, or ethnicity. Here’s a primer on the topic.

In the wake of a controversial Wall Street Journal article on the demise of spreadsheets, we look at how spreadsheets fare in equity compensation and the push toward more predictive modeling and process agility.

Download our checklist of the required disclosure content to guide your efforts in drafting your proxy disclosure.

Four of our professionals presented in six sessions at the Annual NASPP Conference in Washington, DC this past October. Topics covered include best practices in stock-based compensation reporting, CEO pay ratio, behavioral biases in goal-setting, and stock ownership.

As predicted, ISS is broadening their quantitative test to include relative financial metrics. As much as TSR has come under fire as a metric, other metrics can often raise even more issues to manage.

Between our just-completed 2017 Executive Compensation Decision Support Survey and other market polling, we’ve picked up five key insights about how companies are preparing for the upcoming CEO pay ratio disclosure.

On September 21, 2017, the SEC released additional pay ratio guidance. The new guidance primarily reiterates and clarifies flexibility that the rule already allowed, with one substantial update. In this blog post, we go over the highlights of the interpretive guidance and updates to the Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations, and we discuss the ideas posed in the Department of Corporate Finance guidance regarding statistical sampling.

Group Five’s stock plan administration benchmarking report for 2017 is complete. And for the fourth year in a row, Equity Methods tops the list in client satisfaction.

If your company is thinking about issuing warrants, or already has some outstanding, the impact of dilution is something you’ll need to know about.