Evaluating Executive Compensation For Investment

الاثنين، 19 سبتمبر 2016

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 occurs in two ways. First is the cliff vesting and second is the graded vesting. Cliff vesting may occur in just one date while graded vesting may occur from time to time. In Boise, ID, there are other compensation packages for an executive. It includes an interest free loan for housing, retirement plans, health insurances, and private limousine and jet.

Evaluation of the executive compensation is one difficult task an individual may encounter. But luckily, there are already available tools in which they can use for faster and easier processing. The tools will be analyzing and comparing the filings automatically which will give better result to the meaning of raw details.

The comparison of pay and performance is one of the popular ways in evaluation. Unfortunately, there a lot of executives who have been paid still with raises and bonuses even if their companies are struggling. So this process can help in determining whether they are being overpaid. And it can be determined through the stock prices. If the price of stock outpaces the change of pay, they are not overpaid.

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.




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