Employee Benefits Design and Planning

A Guide to Understanding Accounting, Finance, and Tax Implications

Bashker D. Biswas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2014
Pearson FT Press (Verlag)
978-0-13-348133-4 (ISBN)

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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:

Finance and accounting implications of Healthcare benefits
Other risk benefits
Severance benefits
Disability and group life insurance programs
Flexible benefits
Non-qualified deferred arrangements
409A plans, ESOPs, Money Purchase Pension Plans, Cash Balance Plans, 401(k), 403(b) plans and 457 Plans
Employee benefit plan financial reporting, legal compliance, and auditing
Employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions
Self-funding vs. insurance funding decisions
Global employee benefits including umbrella pension plans and multi-national pooling
Equity participation in employee benefit plans

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.

Bashker “Bob” Biswas, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at DeVry University and the Keller Graduate School of Management in Sacramento, California. Dr. Biswas has more than 40 years of experience in total rewards management; finance; accounting; executive compensation; base, incentive, sales, and equity compensation; human resources strategy; human resources information systems; and international human resources and international compensation. The companies he has worked for include Control Data, Bechtel, Memorex, Maxtor, Hitachi Data Systems, and BioGenex and Zain. Dr. Biswas has held positions at the director level and above since 1982. At Maxtor and BioGenex, he was a Vice President. While at Memorex and Zain, he worked out of London and the Middle East/ Africa, respectively. He has traveled to 40 countries on various projects related to compensation and benefits. During his tenure in the Middle East, Dr. Biswas conducted total rewards and global human resources management seminars throughout the Middle East and Africa. He was a leading instructor in the Zain Human Resource Management Academy. In addition, he has held consulting positions at Skopos Corporation (Skopos was a venture investment backed HRIS start-up co-founded by Dr. Biswas in 1983) and Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers. At C&L, he was a Director of Human Resource Consulting in the San Francisco office. He was also C&L’s National High-Tech Leader for Human Resource Consulting. At C&L, Dr. Biswas was responsible for the firm’s National Software Industry Compensation Survey. In total, he has provided compensation consulting to more than 50 companies. Dr. Biswas has taught at various universities as an adjunct faculty since 1984. Dr. Biswas has authored and co-authored articles on human resources management. Dr. Biswas has presented at WorldatWork’s national conference and briefly taught in their certification program. Dr. Biswas holds B.A., M.A., M.B.A., and Ph.D. He has been a member of WorldatWork (American Compensation Association) since 1972.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.2014
Verlagsort	NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 236 mm
Gewicht	704 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Versicherungsbetriebslehre
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	0-13-348133-6 / 0133481336
ISBN-13	978-0-13-348133-4 / 9780133481334
Zustand	Neuware