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Monday, June 15, 2026 Live Webcast

Creating Terrific Equity Compensation Plans: Beware of the Pitfalls (X4-6619612)

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM EDT
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2 CPE Credits in AA

OVERVIEW

In today’s business world, there is a war for talent and organizations with the best talent will win. We clearly need to motivate talented personnel. Equity compensation plans are useful to retain, reward and recruit. The GAAP and tax accounting for equity compensation plans is not static and decisions that you make during plan set-up can have major consequences to your organization’s bottom line and your management team’s personal tax situations. We will review nuances and details that impact proper accounting. Whether you are the CFO or CEO who has not been happy with prior equity compensation plans or the accountant who performs the intricate analysis and detailed accounting for these plans - this session will help you understand the issues and get it right the first time.

DESIGNED FOR

Current and aspiring CFO's and Controllers and/or Finance related professionals involved in teh budget process

BENEFITS

  • Define the budget process
    • Understand varying budget cultures and choosing the right one for your organization
    • Walk through a 12-step cure for the typical Budgetaholic
    • Use Balanced Scorecard Budgeting
  • How to build a model that works
    • How the right Chart of Accounts can simplify your work 
    • Building a volume sensitive model
    • Budgeting to GAAP and for Board understanding
    • Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
    • Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expenses
    • Using variables to stress test your budget
  • Understanding core personality types
    • Learning the type of person you are
    • Managing and coping with the budget team
    • Dealing with A, B and C players
    • Connecting through disconnection
  • Identifying the ‘big picture” and your communications role 
    • Communicating so others can understand us
    • Understanding a presentation’s anatomy 
    • Tips and tricks for budget presentation

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Defining the budget process
  • Common budgetary cultures and discussion of solutions
  • Does your budget need an overhaul or just a tune up?
  • How to make the budget flexible
  • Making a better budget and maybe even a better you (or at least improving the perception of the budget work itself)
  • How to build a flexible budget model that works?
  • What are the steps we can take to budget for economic and external factors beyond our control?
  • How the right Chart of Accounts can simply your work
  • Budget and GAAP are not the same and why they are fine not to be
  • Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
  • Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expense
  • Using key variables to stress-test your budget
  • Understanding your own leadership tendencies and applying them to your strengths?
  • Understanding core personality types
  • Learning what type of person you are?
  • Managing and coping with the budget team
  • Effectively dealing with the A, B, C and other players?
  • Identifying the ‘Big Picture’ and your role in effective communication
  • Communicating so others can understand us
  • Understanding a presentation’s anatomy?
  • Tips and tricks for budget presentations

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

Please contact the ACPEN help desk 1-877-602-9877 or help@acpen.com if you wish to cancel your attendance for a previously purchased webcast and are requesting a refund or transfer.

INSTRUCTOR

Don Minges

Don Minges, M.B.A.
(4.7)

The Knowledge Institute, LLC

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PRICING

$79.00 - Member

$109.00 - Nonmember

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Note: Online pre-registration will close on June 15 at 1:30 PM.

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