Online Seminar - Private Lives: Stock Option Expensing and Minimum Disclosure Requirements for Private Companies - Analytics May 20, 2010 Posted by: Jannet Calix

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This free Web seminar replay focuses on managing stock option
expensing and minimum disclosure requirements as a privately-held
company.

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Whether your company is a start-up or a long-established private firm,
the same issues are often stumbling blocks. Our expert panelists discuss
inputs for option-pricing models, methods for determining appropriate
forfeiture rates, and how to navigate through the detailed minimum
disclosures that are required with insight into unique attributes of
private companies and how they impact disclosures.

Speakers

Jannet
Calix - Director, Product Development, SVB
Analytics - eProsper 
Elizabeth
Dodge - Vice President, Stock & Option Solutions
Jay Seliber - Audit Partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers

This seminar cover these and other
topics:

• An overview of some of the basic concepts in accounting for equity
  compensation


• A review of required option-pricing model inputs and how to
  determine them


• A discussion of forfeiture rates - how to determine and apply them


• A summary of the minimum disclosure requirements under the current
  accounting standards and how to compile them for private firms


• A high-level recap of modification accounting often required for
  private companies when grant terms are changed due to modifications