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SEC Staff Issues Accounting Guidance on “Spring-Loaded” Compensation Awards to Executives

The SEC staff released guidance for companies about how to properly recognize and disclose compensation cost for “spring-loaded awards” made to executives. Spring-loaded awards are share-based compensation arrangements where a company grants stock options or other awards shortly before it announces market-moving information such as an earnings release with better-than-expected […]

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Forms 3, 4 and 5

What is a Form 3? The federal securities laws require certain individuals (such as officers, directors, and those that hold more than 10% of any class of a company’s securities (“insiders”) to report purchases, sales, and holdings of their company’s securities by filing Forms 3, 4, and 5. When a […]