Guide to Compensation in Stock and Options
Free online guide
Welcome to our free online guide to nonqualified options, incentive stock options, employee stock purchase plans and other forms of equity compensation. This page provides a topical index to our extensive online guidance.
Need a book? Our bestselling book Consider Your Options provides a plain language guide to getting the most from stock options, employee stock purchase plans, restricted stock awards and other forms of equity compensation. Our other book on this topic, Equity Compensation Strategies, is a reference and study guide for professionals who advise clients on how to handle stock options.
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Our books on equity compensation
We offer two books on this subject:
- Consider Your Options, our book for people who receive stock options and other forms of equity compensation
- Equity Compensation Strategies, our book for professionals who offer advice to people who receive options and other forms of equity compensation
Free online guide
Here's a list of pages available in this free online guide.
Laying the Foundation
- Equity Compensation 101
- When Stock Is Vested
- Fair Market Value of Stock
- Withholding on Stock Compensation
Stock Grants
Nonqualified Options
- Nonqualified Options in General
- Nonqualified Stock Options Before Exercise
- Exercising Nonqualified Stock Options
- Cashless Exercise of Nonqualified Stock Options
- Nonqualified Option Exercise Using Stock
- Sale of Stock from Nonqualified Options
- Nonqualified Options and Capital Gain
Incentive Stock Options
- Incentive Stock Options in General
- ISOs Before Exercise
- Exercising ISOs
- Cashless Exercise of ISOs
- Using Stock to Exercise ISOs
- Early Disposition of ISO Stock
- Sale of Mature ISO Stock
- $100,000 Limit for ISOs
- $100,000 Limit and Early Exercise
- Refundable AMT Credit
