I’d like to share with our Corporate Focus and Equity Focus users three great resources that I recommend for equity planning, equity transactions, and understanding equity instruments. Our customers have used all of these, and I want to make sure the Two Step community is aware of them. This is Part 3 of a three-part series.
If you’re an employee receiving stock options or a manager awarding stock options, it seems you never can know enough. Equity compensation is a constantly changing field, and there’s always something new on the horizon, whether it relates to understanding the vast array of equity instruments (options, restricted stock, ESPPs, RSUs, SARs) or navigating the complex accounting and tax issues.
When seeking answers, sometimes you need just a little more information in order to ask the right questions of your attorneys, accountants, and advisors. That’s why so many Two Step users have turned to myStockOptions.com. It’s an unbiased source of expert advice that you can start using for free. Then, you can upgrade to their Premium version for more in-depth information (which is well worth the small additional fee). myStockOptions.com recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and published a great article: Five Major Developments in Equity Compensation of the Past Decade.
The myStockOptions website says:
“Equity compensation can be complex and confusing. By educating you, or your advisor, we help you make smart financial decisions. With our independent and unbiased expertise, we encourage you to make the most of stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, stock appreciation rights, employee stock purchase plans, or performance shares.
“Our excellence is attested by our awards, our US patent, our contracts with major stock plan providers, and the praise of people who use the site. The award-winning educational content and tools of myStockOptions.com were developed by experts in financial planning, taxation, securities law, stock plan administration, and human resources.”
If you need a reliable equity compensation resource, take a look at myStockOptions.com. I promise it will be time well spent. And when you’re ready to simplify your ownership administration or equity compensation reporting, contact us at Two Step Software to see our system or find other great resources.
Thanks for your nice comments about myStockOptions.com. We have seen so many changes in the equity compensation world in the past ten years. If we started today, we probably would be called myRestictedStock.com. In fact we have the URL and a substantial amount of content and special tools for these grants, too.
For private companies, we have a collection of articles and FAQs in our pre-IPO section. We often recommend Equity Focus for our private companies that are looking for a stock plan administration system.
Bruce Brumberg, Editor