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A new collection of best practices for designing better compensation and benefit programs… 2 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
2 authoritative eBooks help you drive more value, efficiency, and competitive advantage from compensation and benefits programs
Compensation and benefit programs are the largest expenses in most organizations; in service organizations, they often represent more than 50% of total costs. In this unique 2 eBook package, leading consultant Bashker D. Biswas helps you systematically optimize these programs to maximize value, efficiency, and competitive advantage. In Employee Benefits Design and Planning, Biswas brings together all the knowledge you need to make better benefits decisions. He introduces core principles for ensuring proper financing, funding, compliance, and recordkeeping; accurate actuarial calculations; and effective employee communication. Building on these principles, he guides you through benefits ranging from healthcare and disability insurance to retirement and cafeteria plans. You'll find up-to-date discussions of complex challenges, such as the Affordable Care Act and global benefits planning. Throughout, he offers essential insights for managing rising costs and risks, while ensuring that benefits programs improve productivity, reflect best practices, and align with your organization's strategy and goals. Next, in Compensation and Benefit Design, Biswas helps HR professionals bring true financial and accounting discipline to compensation and benefit design, tightly align talent management to strategy, and quantify program performance in the language of finance. Biswas thoroughly explains best-fit practices for superior program design, demystifies relevant financial and accounting concepts, and illuminates key connections between HR program development and GAAP/IFRS accounting requirements. His far-reaching coverage ranges from integrating compensation and benefits into Balanced Scorecards to managing expatriate compensation. Biswas reveals the true financial implications of every element of modern compensation and benefit programs, from base salaries to stock incentives, sales compensation to healthcare cost containment. Perhaps most important, he helps you systematically measure the value of your investments -- so you can both prove and improve your performance. Simply put, this collection brings together unparalleled tools for optimizing compensation and benefits programs -- whether you're in HR, finance, line-of-business management, or corporate management.
From Dr. Bashker D. Biswas, world-renowned expert in employee compensation and benefits program design
Compensation and Benefit Design: Applying Finance and Accounting Principles to Global Human Resource Management Systems
Preface xviii
Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the Stage 3
Chapter 2: Business, Financial, and Human Resource Planning 29
Chapter 3: Projecting Base Compensation Costs 55
Chapter 4: Incentive Compensation 71
Chapter 5: Share-Based Compensation Plans 95
Chapter 6: International and Expatriate Compensation 131
Chapter 7: Sales Compensation Accounting 165
Chapter 8: Employee Benefit Accounting 187
Chapter 9: Healthcare Benefits Cost Management 209
Chapter 10: The Accounting and Financing of Retirement Plans 231
Chapter 11: Human Resource Analytics 271
Chapter 12: Human Resource Accounting 287
Conclusion 305
References 309
Index: 323
Employee Benefits Design and Planning: A Guide to Understanding Accounting, Finance, and Tax Implications
Preface xvii
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage 1
Chapter 2: Healthcare Benefits 27
Chapter 3: Healthcare Benefit Financing 73
Chapter 4: Other Risk Benefits 109
Chapter 5: Retirement Plans 151
Chapter 6: Other Types of Retirement Benefits 209
Chapter 7: Equity-Based Employee Benefit Plans 235
Chapter 8: International Employee Benefits 277
Chapter 9: Ancillary Benefits 309
Chapter 10: Employee Benefits Cost Management 337
Conclusion: 349
Bibliography: 353
Index: 363