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Straight Talk on 409A Valuations – 10 Things We Learned

We hosted a webinar last week called “Straight Talk on Sec. 409A Valuations: Getting It Right the First Time,” since we know that many of the CFOs that eventually use our system Corporate Focus for their equity administration, accounting and … More

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Sec. 409A Valuations: Do It or Skip It At Your Peril.

Every year at about this time, we’ve just finished helping many of our Corporate Focus customers with questions that come up from their auditors and the finance team is looking forward to taking a break from equity compensation reporting. However, … More

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FAS 123R – Part 3: FAS 123R Reporting Disclosures … Clarified

Learn what a typical, privately-held, venture-backed company needs to understand to properly report equity compensation expense related to “plain vanilla” stock option grants Continue reading More

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Equity Management: Easy as 1-2-3

As the founder of Two Step Software, I’ve been asked numerous times how to simplify the many complex aspects of equity management. When we developed our online system 15 years ago, our goal was to use a database application to … 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 Overlap of FAS 123R and Sec. 409A in the Stock Option Valuation Game

Although option expensing under FAS 123R caused a great amount of confusion when it was first introduced, fortunately, stock plan administration systems were able to handle much of the difficult leg work. That’s clearly not the case when it comes … 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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