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This book offers guidance for understanding benefits options and plan structures, and making better decisions for your organization. Writing for both HR and finance professionals, internationally respected compensation and benefits professor and consultant Bashker Biswas drills comprehensively into today's most important benefits-related topics and challenges. Employee Benefits Design and Planning covers all this, and much more:
Biswas introduces and explains key employee benefit metrics and ratios, and demonstrates best practices for forecasting costs and budgeting appropriately. For all compensation professionals, benefits professionals, human resource professionals, accounting professionals, labor attorneys, financial analysts, and finance professionals. Readers will have roles in benefits-related consulting, finance, accounting, and human resource management, both domestic and international.
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