Communications Committee Crash Course

This fall, the NCEO will be offering its first-ever communications committee training and networking program, the Communications Committee Crash Course.

Companies Continue to Diversify Equity Plans

A new survey of technology and life science companies from Culpepper and Associates finds that both private and public companies are relying less on options than they did in prior years.

Companies Protest FASB Stock Option Proposal

Four hundred companies have petitioned the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in opposition to that body's proposal that companies provide a footnote disclosure of the value of outstanding stock options.

Companies with ESPPs Outperform Those Without Them

A new study by Carver Edison shows that over the last five years, public companies with employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs) had a return on equity of nearly 12% per year, compared to 7% in companies without these plans.

Company Notes

Periodically, we report on the kinds of company announcements not likely to make the news, but typifying the employee ownership world. One such case is Environmental Sciences Associates, a leading California-based environmental consulting firm.

Company Stock Blues at General Electric

In an April 22 article (subscription required) in the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Gryta tracks the impact of the decline in General Electric's shar