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Equity Compensation Reporting Terms. Ever Wish There Was a Handbook On That?

Every day, we hear from CFOs and others who are responsible for equity compensation reporting that they wish there was a resource that made it easier to understand and look up a few calculations, terms, or disclosures related to ASC … More

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Just How Easy Is Your Equity Accounting? Survey Results Say: Not So Easy After All

On July 18th, Corporate Focus hosted a new live webinar called: “Straight Talk on Stock Option Expensing Under ASC Topic 718: Variables, Expensing and Disclosures … Explained.” A recorded version of the presentation is now available for download. This webinar … More

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Straight Talk on Stock Option Expensing Under ASC Topic 718: Variables, Expensing and Disclosures … Explained

Since the introduction of ASC Topic 718 (formerly FAS 123R) in 2006 for privately-held companies, proper stock option reporting, expensing and disclosures have been a challenge for many early-stage companies with employee stock option plans that need to report in … More

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Moving to Audited Financials? Four Tips to Prepare Your Equity Accounting and Reporting for Success

For most privately-held companies, a major growth milestone (and admitted headache) is the point in time when their compiled financials are transitioned to audited financials. And while this may sometimes to be more of a pain than not, what it … More

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Are You Ready for Action When Your CFO Clients Call?

An outsourced CFO called me the other day. He said he’d heard about how easy it was do to FAS 123R equity compensation accounting in Corporate Focus?and he was anxious to get started. His high-tech client was actually being sold … More

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The Stock Option Valuation Game: Like Whac-A-Mole for Equity Compensation Reporting … Just a Lot Less Fun

This is Part 1 of a three-part series offering excerpts from the Two Step Software white paper, “The Stock Option Valuation Game.”You can read the entire 3-page article at http://www.twostep.com/news/whitepapers.asp. Your 2007 audit may finally be completed, but don’t break … More

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Do You Really Understand the Venture Capital Terms–or Are You Just Afraid to Ask?

In our education programs at Two Step Software, we provide basic training for those who do the difficult work of tracking and creating capitalization tables and offer other courses that focus on equity compensation accounting. However, for a change, we thought it would be … More

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FAS 123R Best Practices Webinar: Non-Public Companies Now Fall Under the New Audit Standards for Internal Controls

Last month, more than 300 CFOs, controllers and other accounting professionals registered for our third in a series of webinars that Two Step Software presented this year on FAS 123R best practices. This one was called “FAS 123R Best Practices … More

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