Monday 19 September 2016

Evaluating Executive Compensation For Investment

By Raymond Davis


An executive pay is any financial or non financial compensation or awards received by the firm executives for the services they have offered to organizations. These compensations include the salary, shares of stock, bonuses, perquisites, and benefits. According to some studies, executive compensations must always be aligned with the social goals of company such as public health goals. It is a very important part of the corporate governance, the processes that controls and directs the corporation.

Six tools of compensation are being used and these are the perquisites or paid expenses, insurance, long term incentives, employee benefits, salary, and bonuses or short term incentives. In most corporations nowadays, executive compensation Pacific Northwest in certain companies such as the CEO or other top executives are often paid with salaries plus bonuses. It is called total cash compensation. Short term incentives or the bonuses usually are based in a criteria, in which is dependent to the executives role.

The executives may also be compensated with cash and shares of the company that are usually subject to restrictions of a long term incentive. But for it to be considered as a long term incentive, it must be after a period between 3 to 5 years. This is the time wherein the recipient will be transferring the shares and will realize the value. The vesting restriction may be based in the time or in its performance.

Vesting may occur in two different ways. One is cliff vesting and the other is graded vesting. The cliff vesting occurs in one date while the other occurs over a period of time. There are also other packages that includes executive compensation in Boise, ID. These are the retirement plans, interest free loans in house purchasing, private jet and limousine, and health insurances.

Evaluating the executives compensation may be a very difficult task for individuals. But luckily, tools are already made available to be used for easy and better processing. The tools analyzes and compares the filings automatically, thus, giving a meaning to the raw information.

Comparing the pay and performance is another that is popular for evaluation. But unluckily, a lot of executives are being paid still with some bonuses and raises even though the company is already faltering. And by this process of comparison, overpaying can easily be determined. The process is done by looking at the stock prices. If stock prices will outpace its change of pay, there is no overpaying.

Another popular way is peer comparison. In this process, the executives are being compared to their industry peers. The CEO of market leaders are being slightly paid more compared to their industries. And most executives must be paid on a face value with their peers.

A lot of laws are now passed that will help satisfying the investor concerns about compensation. Some other laws are passed that directs more on company practices. One example is removing tax shelter, in which the result is avoiding the company to pay millions of their taxes.

So in conclusion, this is very important consideration for the investors when they make decisions. When an executive is improperly compensated, it may lead to cost money of shareholders. And also, it may decrease the profits and share price.




About the Author:



0 التعليقات:

Post a Comment