Consider Your Options: Get the Most from Your Equity Compensation

The second edition of Consider Your Options includes the features that made the first edition so popular and much more. It provides plain language guidance for all the popular forms of equity compensation: stock grants, nonqualified options, incentive stock options and employee stock purchase plans. It tells how to avoid mistakes that can result in paying too much tax or otherwise failing to get the maximum investment return from these benefits. The book assumes no knowledge, explaining all the basic terminology and concepts from the ground up. Yet it also includes more advanced material for those seeking to render professional advice -- or evaluate the advice they've received.

The second edition covers the latest tax changes and includes ten new chapters on stock option planning. These begin with basics of investing and move on to cover investment risk and reward, stock option valuation, and strategies for handling different types of options. Included are instructions on how to build your own spreadsheet to calculate Black-Scholes stock option values.