CalCPA has a new virtual course with CPE credit designed specifically for CPAs: ESOPs - What to Say When a Client Asks. CPAs play a critical role in guiding corporate clients through complex financial situations, including those related to succession ...
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About Kevin Long
ESOPs: The Three Types
This article will acquaint you with the utility of the ESOP as both a technique of corporate finance and an employee benefit plan. It is important to note, however, that there are other qualified retirement plans that can be used to invest ...
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Let Them Eat Stock
There is more to equity compensation than just giving your employees stock in the company. In this podcast episode, Kevin Long addresses common overbroad assumptions about equity compensation and how an equity readiness survey helps you determine ...
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ESOP Education Challenges
In this podcast episode, Kevin Long interviews Sheryl Bayani-Alzona and Nataki Gregory about their experience working with CT3, a new ESOP company. They discuss the challenges and successes of the ESOP transaction and how they were able to build a ...
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ESOP Distributions: Problems to Avoid
Any ESOP attorney or consultant can tell you that ESOP distributions can be the most complex and challenging area of ESOP design and administration. As discussed in detail in our articles Designing And Drafting ESOPs[1], and Avoiding ERISA Liability ...
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ERISA Section 510 Claims
ERISA section 510 makes it unlawful for any person to discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a participant or beneficiary for exercising any right to which he is entitled or may become entitled under an ERISA plan. ...
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