Ask the Experts: Grant Practices

Find out whether your grant practices are respectable!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

4:00 – 5:30 pm, eastern time [archive and transcript to follow]

Quick Survey on Grant Practices

The backdating scandal unearthed a host of questionable grant practices. While most companies have since revised and improved their practices, dangerous and poor procedures still exist—often a medley of one—off solutions that can compromise efficiency and be potentially disastrous. Continuing our "Ask the Experts" series, this webcast will tackle the questions you submit in advance on proper grant procedures, key grant policies and guidelines, required documentation, common procedural mistakes—including how to fix them and how to prevent them—and other challenging topics related to grant practices and procedures. Submit your own questions on this topic by Tuesday, February 28, and our expert panelists will address them during this session.

Submit a question for this webcast

Featured panelists:

• Bill Murphy, Principal, Ernst & Young
• June Anne Burke, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
• Carrie Kovac, Director, Finance, Symantec
• Richard Robbins, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Morningstar

Among many other topics, this program will cover:

• Typical (and not so typical) grant mistakes, how to fix them and how to prevent them.
• The importance of an equity grant policy and its components.
• Factors that are important to the determination of the grant date, including documentation and acceptance.
• Challenges unique to international awards.
• Answers to the questions you submit in advance.

Continuing Education: This program qualifies for continuing education for Certified Equity Professionals (CEPs). Please keep a record of your attendance and refer to the CEP Institute standards to determine the amount of credit you can receive.

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