Employee Ownership Blog

Forfeiture rates and their application are one of the least understood aspects of ASC 718 and create numerous challenges in accounting for equity compensation.

Mark Harbeke's blog post Employee Skin in the Game Is Good for Business draws on data from the 342 organizations that applied for this year's Winning Workplaces award. His finding?

A thousand employees of Republic Airways Holdings and its Frontier Airlines subsidiary will soon receive an ownership stake in the company. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA approved a new collective bargaining agreement.

Philip Mellizo, an assistant professor at the College of Wooster, performed a game theory experiment to explore the impact of ownership incentives on job performance in a tightly controlled experimental setting.

The IPO of the state-controlled coal company Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa raised 5.4 billion zlotys ($1.96 billion) for the Polish government.

The fifth annual Ownership Thinking conference will take place on September 22 and 23 in the Denver, Colorado, area. The NCEO is again happy to sponsor this event and recommends it as a way for companies to learn how to build strong ownership culture with actively engaged entrepreneurs.

The State of Ohio has provided funding for the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) at Kent State University since 1987.

The NCEO is conducting a survey of private, non-ESOP companies that grant equity to employees, as well as a separate survey of venture capital and other investor groups in these companies.

Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced S. 1375, which would require companies to use the same value for their options on both their books and their tax returns.

Following LinkedIn's successful IPO, commentators suggested that other Internet firms might try IPOs of their own. Twitter, however, is planning to follow a different path.

The IRS created a revised three-page Employee Stock Ownership Plan Review Worksheet (PDF format) to be used in its initial review.

A new study of over 1,900 plan participants in 130 companies by Fidelity Stock Plan Services found that company stock plans are the number two savings vehicle for employees being offered these plans, ranking behind only 401(k) plans.