The Stock Options Book, 3rd ed. [Paperback]

David R. Johanson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0926902563 | ISBN-13: 978-0926902565 | Publication Date: December 30, 1999

The Stock Options Book is a comprehensive guide for companies and their professional advisors who want to set up and maintain employee stock option programs to attract, retain, and reward employees. The book covers legal rules, administrative matters, valuation, accounting, plan design, IPO issues, creating a more productive "ownership culture," special considerations for equity compensation in closely held companies, case studies, new research on how companies are structuring their option plans, common questions and answers for plan participants, and alternative plans such as phantom stock, all with an emphasis on broad-based plans in which most or all employees are offered options.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Overall, this is a good book for those exploring the use of equity-based incentives at their companies. -- Douglas Van Tornhout, Director of Executive Compensation at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., in ACA News, February 1998, p. 11.

Overall, this is a good book for those exploring the use of equity-based incentives at their companies. -- Douglas Van Tornhout, Director of Executive Compensation at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., in ACA News, February 1998, p. 11. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 258 pages
• Publisher: Natl Center for Employee Ownership (December 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0926902563
• ISBN-13: 978-0926902565
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,192,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All aspects of stock options succinctly explained, September 14, 1999

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Carol Goodman, Attorney/Mediator (SiamCiCG@ix... (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stock Options Book, 3rd ed. (Paperback)

This book is an invaluable reference for any business owner or advisor contemplating the use of stock options to improve a company's performance, motivate employees and create an ownership culture. The National Center for Employee Ownership, the impetus behind this book, is a national treasure, as far as I'm concerned. Their mandate is to democratize the workplace to best reflect the demands and dynamics of the 21st Century Global Economy. This book uniquely addresses everything a company needs to consider regarding stock options: the business, financial, accounting, legal, securities and human resources/organizational development aspects. You cannot find a better resource or more accessible book in the stock options arena.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very educational, July 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Stock Options Book, 2nd edition

Excellent book. Though the title doesn't sound as hot as "Ectrepreneu's guide to equity", it covers much more and in depth with the same price. It covers all the pros and cons and tax issues for stock option and empolyee stock ownership plan and other incentive plans. The bottom line, after reading the book, you won't be any more confused about each plan. To an employee, it is very helpful in deciding if you want to stay with present employer or change to another one with a better incentive plan. To an entreprenur, this is the Bible. It will benefit your business and your staff enoumously. I wish I had bought this book first. It could have saved me time and money in shipping $ handling fees and returing back to Amazon the "Entrepreneu's Guide to Equity"

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable and authoritative book about stock options., June 21, 1999

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Jerry Kalish ([e-mail] (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stock Options Book, 2nd edition

The Stock Option Book is a valuable source of authoritative current knowledge and thinking about stock options for readers whose background may be business, professional, academia, or government. To be effective, a book of this nature should offer a broad perspective. The experiences of a broad range of experts is more important than that of a single expert. Editor Scott Rodrick of the National Center for Employee Ownership has chosen some of the best known stock option experts to contribute to this book. All have been actively involved in the evolution of employee stock option plans. Each chapter in the book stands alone and is complete in itself. While this produces some overlap in certain of the chapters, it eliminates the need for the reader to refer to other chapters, and it provides valuable reinforcement of important concepts. This book is another excellent publication about employee ownership and participation published by the National Center for Employee Ownership.