REPORT OF CONTENT ADDED, UPDATED, REVISED, OR EXPANDED: January, February, and March 2009
Stock Appreciation Rights: Taxes
If I exercise stock appreciation rights (SARs), will I need to make estimated tax payments? 
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Financial Planning: Strategies
Stockbrokers' Secrets (Part 4): What I Tell My Best Clients About Down-Market Strategy
Financial Planning: Advanced Strategies
In Their Own Words: Financial Advisors On Company Stock Strategy For The Market Downturn
Better Late Than Never: Stock Option Strategy For The Market Upturn
Retirement Planning With Your Stock Options And Other Stock Compensation (Part 3: Post-Retirement Planning)
Financial Planning: Diversification
Can my company set ownership guidelines or require me to retain a certain amount of company stock from a stock option exercise or a restricted stock grant?
Financial Planning: High Net Worth
How Tax Rate Changes Impact Strategies For Stock Options & Restricted Stock (Part 1)
Techniques To Defer Or Reduce Taxes On The Sale Of Your Company's Shares (Part 1): QSB Stock
Will my company be able to take a tax deduction for the value of my restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance shares, or stock options if my compensation already exceeds $1 million?
Financial Planning: Gifts
Gifts: Save On Estate Taxes With Transferable Stock Options
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Job Events: Termination
My company recently went through layoffs. What rights do involuntarily terminated employees have in their stock options, and what may my company do?
How long do I have to exercise my vested stock options after my employment ends?
What are the most common periods after termination during which stock options can be exercised? Does the reason (e.g., disability, early retirement) matter?
What is the tax impact on me if my company modifies outstanding stock options or SARs, such as by extending the option term?
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Life Events: College Funding
Funding Your Child's College Education With Stock Options And Other Stock Grants (Parts 1-3)
Life Events: Retirement
Retirement Planning With Your Stock Options And Other Stock Compensation (Part 3: Post-Retirement Planning)
What are the most common periods after termination during which stock options can be exercised? Does the reason (e.g., disability, early retirement) matter?
Life Events: Retirement Plans
Retirement Planning With Your Stock Options And Other Stock Compensation (Part 3: Post-Retirement Planning)
How do stock grants affect the income limits for contributing to a Roth IRA?
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SEC Law: Basics
Can the SEC, the Treasury, or my company take away stock option gains, restricted stock, and performance shares after accounting fraud has occurred?
SEC Law: Insider Trading
What is insider trading? Do you have to be an "insider" or executive to commit it?
SEC Law: Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans
Can my company force me to use a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan? Can it prohibit me from using one?
SEC Law: Rule 144 & Section 16
If I sold my stock immediately upon exercise or at vesting, the transaction would violate the insider-trading laws and the laws of short-swing profits under Section 16(b) because I had a purchase within six months of the sale. Would this then delay the date of the tax treatment?
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M&A Taxes
Does the accelerated vesting of my stock options, restricted stock, and/or performance shares in a change of control or termination have any tax impact on me, such as for ISOs and golden parachute payments?
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Pre-IPO: Basics
Why doesn't my employer offer me stock options or another type of equity compensation?
Can limited liability companies make stock grants?
Pre-IPO: Going Public
Techniques To Defer Or Reduce Taxes On The Sale Of Your Company's Shares (Part 1): QSB Stock
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UPDATED OR EXPANDED
Belgium
China
Germany
Ireland
Sweden
United Kingdom
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NEW!
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Monte Carlo
Short-Term Deferral Exemption
TARP
Troubled Asset Relief Program
UPDATED OR EXPANDED
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Incremental Shares
International Accounting Standards Board
Section 162(m)
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NEW!
I am about to lose my job. I have 22,000 stock options; some have vested and others will in the next few years. Because of the stock market drop last year, most are underwater. Once I leave the company, I need to exercise them within 90 days to avoid forfeiture. Can my company modify the grants to give me more time and also accelerate the vesting of the unvested stock options?
I'm trying to make sense of my stock compensation income as it is shown on my W-2. Last year I had restricted stock that vested, I exercised nonqualified stock options, and I bought shares through my company's employee stock purchase plan. Do all of these trigger income that should appear on my W-2?
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