My Brush With Fame Last week, the FASB appointed a new chair: Russell Golden, who has served as a FASB member since 2010. But long before that, back when Elizabeth Dodge and I worked for E*TRADE and Russ worked for Deloitte (we were all a lot younger), he used to advise us on technical accounting issues related to stock compensation. I think this puts me on a first-name basis with someone famous!
NASPP To Do List Here’s your NASPP “to do” list for this week.
Register for the 21st Annual NASPP Conference–don’t wait, the early bird rate is only available until next Friday, May 10.
Register for our spring 2013 online Stock Plan Fundamentals program. It’s not too late–all webcasts have been archived for you to listen to at your convenience.
Check out the results of our quick survey on the additional Medicare tax.
Register for our spring 2013 online Stock Plan Fundamentals program. It’s not too late–last week’s webcast has been archived for you to listen to at your convenience.
Last Chance to Participate in the 2013 Domestic Stock Plan Design Survey
This is your last chance to participate in the NASPP’s 2013 Domestic Stock Plan Design Survey (co-sponsored by Deloitte). This is the most comprehensive survey on stock plan design–compensation consultants charge more than $1,000 for surveys that include less data and fewer respondents. You’re going to want this data, but you’d better get cracking. Issuers have to participate to have access to the full survey results and you must complete the survey by this Friday, April 19. We’ve already extended this deadline once, we can’t extend it again!
Terry Adamson of Radford gets 10 points for answering my “think fast” challenge on two times when the Black-Scholes value is not significantly higher than intrinsic value (“Realizable Pay,” April 2, 2013). Terry’s answers:
When there is a significant dividend yield, then Black-Scholes will be less than intrinsic value.
When an option is well “in-the-money”, then Black-Scholes would be very close to the intrinsic value (i.e., the time value shrinks to nothing with options that are well in the money).
Also, when an options is close to expiring it has very little time value, so the Black-Scholes value would not be much higher than intrinsic value. Hmmm, I think this might show up in the Question of the Week Challenge soon.
Survey Deadline Extended
We’ve extended the deadline to participate in the NASPP’s 2013 Domestic Stock Plan Design Survey (co-sponsored by Deloitte). Don’t dilly dally; we can’t extend the deadline again.
Last Chance to Participate in the 2013 Domestic Stock Plan Design Survey
This is your last chance to participate in the NASPP’s 2013 Domestic Stock Plan Design Survey (co-sponsored by Deloitte). This is the most comprehensive survey on stock plan design–compensation consultants charge more than $1,000 for surveys that include less data and fewer respondents. You’re going to want this data, but you’d better get cracking. Issuers have to participate to have access to the full survey results and you must complete the survey by this Friday, April 5–no exceptions!
Hot or Not? Give us your feedback on topics for the NASPP Conference; play the “Hot or Not?” game, in yesterday’s blog.
2013 Domestic Stock Plan Design Survey This is the industry’s most comprehensive survey on stock plan design. Make sure you have access to the results; register to participate today. Don’t put it off, the survey is only open through April 5.
New Compliance-O-Meter We’ve posted a new Compliance-O-Meter on Vendor Management.
My New Intern We have a pretty small staff here at the NASPP and everyone has to pitch in. In the pics below, you can see my cat, Kaylee, looking up a few article cites for me in the back issues of The Corporate Executive (click the thumbnail to see the full picture):
NASPP “To Do” List
Here’s your full NASPP “to do” list for this week.
Early-bird registration for the 21st Annual NASPP Conference ends this Friday, March 8. This deadline will not be extended. Don’t pay more than you have to for the Conference–register today.
Opportunity is Knocking
We have close to 30 job postings in the new NASPP Career Center. Check it out today.
Here’s the rest of your NASPP “To Do List” for the week:
NASPP “To Do” List We have so much going on here at the NASPP that it can be hard to keep track of it all, so we keep an ongoing “to do” list for you here in our blog.
Speaking Proposals: NASPP Conference speaking proposals are due this Friday, by March 1. We view this as a test: if you can’t get your speaking proposals in on time, you also probably aren’t going to be able to get your presentation materials in on time.
Early-Bird Registration: For those of you that are not hoping to speak at the Conference, the deadline for early-bird registration ends a week from Friday, on March 8. This deadline also will not be extended. Don’t pay more than you have to for the Conference; register by March 8.
Here’s the rest of your NASPP “To Do List” for the week:
NASPP “To Do” List We have so much going on here at the NASPP that it can be hard to keep track of it all, so we keep an ongoing “to do” list for you here in our blog.