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Those of you that have been reading this blog for a couple of years know that one of the things I like about stock compensation is that I get to use a lot of fancy words.  Around this time for the past two years, I’ve posted a blog entry listing some of those words.  This is my last blog entry of the year and, although I could blog about ISS guidelines, FASB decisions, cost basis, or a host of other technical topics, I thought, why not continue the tradition?

So, for the third year in a row, here are some fun equity compensation terms with suggestions on how to fit them into casual conversation with family and friends over the holiday season:

• Omnibus:  I’m bringing an omnibus cookie platter with a fungible sugar reserve to the holiday party; I plan to include sugar cookies, peanut butter thumbprints, rum balls, gingerbread men, fudge bars, and peanut brittle. You can fulfill your sugar quota with just one fudge bar, two sugar cookies or three gingerbread men.
• Promulgate: Santa has promulgated a new rule that all children have to be in bed by midnight or he won’t deliver the presents.
• Cumulative: Given the cumulative number of burnt-out bulbs we’ve amassed, I’m surprised any of our holiday light strands work at all.
• Prevalence: In terms of holiday toy trends, Tickle-Me-Elmo has declined significantly in prevalence.
• Mechanism:  I have no mechanism by which to keep my holiday budget under control.
• Constraint: Given my digestive constraints, I really just cannot eat another bite.

Check out the past entries:

• “More Holiday Fun,” December 24, 2013
• “Holiday Fun,” December 18, 2012

The NASPP Blog is taking next week off. I hope you have a great holiday season and new year! Don’t forget to listen to the NASPP’s New Year’s resolutions and tell us your own. See you next year!

– Barbara