The second edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook will provide a comprehensive review of the issues facing compensation committees. It will cover functional issues such as organizing, planning, and best practice tips as well as compliance advice on the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations. Key Sarbanes-Oxley requirements include: New requirements on disclosures of financial transactions involving management and principal stockholders Enhanced conflict of interest provisions including prohibition of loans to executive officers. Forfeiture of certain bonuses and profits for non-compliance.
Book Details:
- Author: James F. Reda
- ISBN: 9780470236277
- Year Published: 2005
- Pages: 463
- BISAC: BUS001040, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Accounting / Managerial
About the Book and Topic:
The second edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook will provide a comprehensive review of the issues facing compensation committees. It will cover functional issues such as organizing, planning, and best practice tips as well as compliance advice on the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations. Key Sarbanes-Oxley requirements include: New requirements on disclosures of financial transactions involving management and principal stockholders Enhanced conflict of interest provisions including prohibition of loans to executive officers. Forfeiture of certain bonuses and profits for non-compliance.
Compensation committees have come under increasing scrutiny the past couple of years as anxious shareholders cry foul over what is seen as excessive executive pay packages for executives even when the companies they work for are under-performing. On top of this, recent regulations, most notably Sarbanes-Oxley, have had a major impact on executive compensation reporting and practice requirements.
Provides key guidance on the latest regulations impacting executive compensation including Sarbanes-Oxley. Outlines the roles and responsibilities of the compensation committee including best practice tips and techniques. Shows how to make compensation committees a performance driver for a company. Addition of Stewart Reifler and Laura Thatcher as co-authors will be a big boost to gain exposure for the book. All three authors speak frequently on this topic and contribute articles to key periodicals.
About the Author
James F. Reda (New York, NY) is President of James F. Reda and Associates. Mr. Redas areas of specialization are board of directors issues, corporate governance, senior executive employment arrangements, change-in-control metrics, business combinations, and long-term incentive arrangements, for both public and private companies. Mr. Reda has over fifteen years of executive compensation consulting experience and has written and presented extensively on the subject of executive compensation topics. Stewart Reifler (New York, NY) joined the New York office of Vedder, Price, Kaufman s executive compensation practice. Having over twenty years experience in securities law and mergers and acquisitions, Ms. Thatcher developed executive compensation as a separate specialty area of the firms tax practice and now works exclusively in that area. Since joining the firm in 1980, she has been a frequent speaker and author of materials on topics relating to executive compensation. Ms. Thatcher serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Deferred Compensation and chairs the compensation committee of two companies.