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Are you involved in stock-based compensation accounting for your organization? We want to hear from you! Share your insights on team structure, budgeting and forecasting, ASU 2016-09 readiness, cost allocation, recharging, IFRS, and more.

Compensation professionals are invited to take this one-of-a-kind survey covering how organizations reach key decisions to achieve their executive pay objectives. Topics include: staffing, internal decision-making protocols, views toward metric selection and goal-setting, and proxy preparation.

Employee share purchase plans (ESPPs) are trending as an important tool for broad-based equity compensation. We share the top insights and trends we’ve gathered from conversations with issuing companies and industry friends over the last year.

Now that most companies have adopted ASU 2016-09, its practical implications are quickly coming to light. Top among these is the P&L volatility companies are experiencing. For many, the earnings volatility is positive, but don’t forget that what goes up usually comes down. Get our CEO’s take on ASU 2016-09’s surprises.

The 2017 WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference brought together compensation leaders and experts for three days of discussions and workshops in Washington, D.C. Here, we summarize the key takeaways from sessions that covered hybrid performance awards, ESPPs, CEO pay ratio, mergers and acquisitions, and much more.

Ongoing uncertainty remains as to how proxy advisors favor (or don’t favor) relative TSR awards. We recently collaborated with ISS to discuss the roles that TSR metrics have in long-term incentive pay. Read our top ten takeaways.

Changing financial reporting providers is a big decision that kicks off a high-profile organizational initiative. Here, we discuss the keys to success, standard variance drivers, and the technical backdrop of why reconciliation differences are usually recorded as a change in accounting estimate instead of a more serious change in accounting principle.

Spinoffs remain one of the toughest areas of equity accounting. In this issue brief, we discuss how a proactive approach toward data reduces both risk and downstream accounting problems.

Group Five released its annual survey of corporate stock plan sponsors earlier this month, triggering a wave of excitement at our office in Scottsdale, Arizona. For the third year in…