Essays about: "Employee stock options"

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  1. 1. Factors influencing the share repurchase decision : A look into Nordic firms

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Fredric Wållberg; Ezra Anglemier; [2021]
    Keywords : Corporate Governance; Share Repurchases; Logistic regression; Payout Policy;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between share repurchase decisions and severalfinancial variables the year before. We link financial theories such as signaling,substitution, leverage, excess capital, corporate governance, employee stock option, andlegitimacy theory to this relationship and create a hypothesis to test in a quantitative study. READ MORE

  2. 2. Cross-border taxation of employee stock options - Is the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court’s ruling in case 1480-15 and 1483-15 regarding taxation of employee stock options supported by the case law provided by the European Court of Justice?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Ida Olofsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Employee stock options; Cross-border taxation; OECD; Fundamental freedoms; Comparable situations; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to present issues related to cross-border taxation of employee stock options and critically inquiring whether the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court’s reasoning about comparable situations in the two rulings concerning taxation of stock options is supported by ECJ case law. On 4th of November 2015, the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden issued two rulings concerning taxation of foreign earned income from employee stock option and share programs that was earned before the employee moved to Sweden and became a Swedish tax resident, but was actually paid to the employee after that point. READ MORE

  3. 3. How do Companies Reward their Employees

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Avd.)

    Author : Samuel Cudjoe; [2012]
    Keywords : Axiological; Extrinsic; Intrinsic; Methodology; Methodological assumption; Methodological triangulation; Ontological assumption; Paradigm; Positivism; Qualitative; Quantitative; Research design; Sampling frame; Sample size; Unit of analysis;

    Abstract : This study is unique considering the location (Africa) and the industrial setting (Gold Mining) from which the research was studied as reward systems had mostly been studied in the North-American and European settings. Thus, the study  considered  rewards from the perspective of the African and its natural resource industries such as the gold mining industry. READ MORE

  4. 4. The relationship between employee stock option grants and share price on the Swedish market

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Magnus Wieslander; Hanna Nilsson; [2010]
    Keywords : Employee stock options; value relevance; valuation; accounting; IFRS 2;

    Abstract : Since January 1st 2005, Swedish firms listed on the OMX Stockholm exchange are required to recognize expenses related to employee stock option programs. In this paper, we examine the relationship between a firm's market value of equity per share and the fair value of newly granted employee stock options, disclosed under the IFRS 2, for a sample of firms listed on the OMX Stockholm exchange. READ MORE

  5. 5. Evaluating CEO Equity Based Compensation: The Challenge to value ESOs and its Cost for Investors

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Martin Green; Patrik Svederud; [2008]
    Keywords : Executive Stock options; CEO Renumeration; Disclosure rules;

    Abstract : In this thesis we examine how information about the CEO’s stock-based compensation is disclosed in the annual reports of public Swedish companies and if this information is good enough to evaluate the shareholders cost of these compensation packages. A thorough survey is conducted and a valuation model for employee stock options is described and exemplified with cases. READ MORE