This online course offers an overview of various U.S. federal employment laws that impact total rewards compensation and benefits programs. This information is critical because we live in a litigious society. Employers and Human Resources professionals must know exactly what federal law requires regarding employee compensation and benefits admi ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
Accurate salary survey data is crucial to salary increase planning. There are many options for obtaining salary survey data: government compensation surveys, online salary surveys, a salary survey research outsource, private compensation surveys, or conducting your own survey. This course explores the advantages of each of these options and sh ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
In this course, you’ll learn how to create a pay for performance plan as part of your organization's total rewards compensation program. Pay for performance allows organizations to reward employees for attaining key goals resulting in organization success. This course will help you decide whether or not pay for performance is appropriate for your ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
This course teaches you how to select and administer variable pay plans for your organization. It describes the importance of variable pay and the organizations that are best suited for these types of plans. It then covers the different types of variable pay plans, such as incentive, bonus and recognition, and the factors that must be considered in ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
This course teaches compensation professionals about the importance of the design and delivery of variable pay plans for nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. You’ll learn about the different types of variable pay plans available. Also, key features of each type of plan will be reviewed to enable you to evaluate which plan may be the most appropria ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
In many companies, stock options are an important part of the variable pay plan. This course presents a basic overview of employee stock options. You'll learn about NQSOs and ISOs, employee ownership, how to evaluate a stock option portfolio, and what the future has in store for stock option plans. ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
Business leaders of small or closely held companies can reduce their taxes through accumulated earnings and deferred compensation. This course looks at the complexities of how to do that. First we examine taxation issues related to accumulated earnings. Then we look at the potential tax loss/gain that exists with deferred compensation plans. These ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
Stock options are an important and popular component of executive compensation packages. This course teaches you how to place a value on stock options using the Black-Scholes method. We explain each step of the Black-Scholes formula, describing the consequences of its assumptions and the reason why ten different companies might derive ten different ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
Compensation committees are responsible for the effective design and evaluation of C-Suite compensation programs. These generally focus on achieving short-term operating plan execution coupled with long-term sustainable business performance alignment. The framework under which these responsibilities are fullfilled entail assessing the current bus ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
This course analyzes how to establish a total rewards compensation program for business leaders. We will discuss the goals and theories behind these programs, including the use of incentives, bonuses and stock options; the advantages of deferred compensation; and the use of perquisites and golden parachutes. Then this course looks at the question o ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
This course provides an overview of how intermediate sanctions (Internal Revenue Code § 4958) impact executive compensation packages. Intermediate sanctions are aimed at curbing abuse that occurs in 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organizations relating to overcompensation of individuals in control at these firms. This course will examine ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
This taxation course reviews the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) federal income tax standards for reasonable compensation of stockholder-employees in closely held corporations. Reasonable compensation challenges result from the IRS suspicion that stockholder-employees have paid themselves so as to improperly reduce their taxes through und ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
This course provides an overview for strategic employee benefits planning. First you'll learn what benefits your organization must offer based on federal employee benefits laws. Then you'll find out how to align employee benefits programs with your organization's demographics by using employee benefits surveys. You'll learn how to control per emplo ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
Retirement plans are an important part of a total rewards benefits package. This course presents a broad overview of employee retirement plans. You’ll take a look at qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, the various plans within those categories, and the advantages and disadvantages of each plan. You’ll also look briefly at retirement plan ...More
Credit for CCC: 1
The ERI Distance Learning Center is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: https://www.nasbaregistry.org/