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from the brochure at http://www.insightforums.com/scs09agenda.php#2_breakout_b1
SEC Requirements for Compensation Disclosure Analysis: How Transparency is Good for Corporations and Shareholders

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires that public corporations explain to shareholders (and the public) how their executives are compensated: salaries, benefits, stock options, etc.

A section of the company?s proxy statement, the Compensation and Disclosure Analysis, must be written in plain language and include justifications and explanations for corporate compensations. Following the public demand for more oversight and transparency for executive compensation, corporate Compensation and Disclosure Analysis  will receive more scrutiny from the SEC as U.S. corporations have become even more concerned about fulfilling the requirements for transparency.

Many of these Compensation and Disclosure Analysis are written by internal communications specialists, attorneys, and accountants. This session focuses on the analysis and redesign of a Compensation and Disclosure Analysis by illustrating the legal requirements for Compensation and Disclosure Analysis showing an example of ?before and after,? and discussing the role that plain language and information design played in meeting transparency requirements. The presenter will reference specific projects to illustrate the importance of plain language in shareholder communications. Case examples include the analysis and partial redesign of the 2007 Compensation and Disclosure Analysis  from Bank of America and the 2008 Compensation and Disclosure Analysis of a major energy company.

Participants will learn
1) a methodology for analyzing existing
2) a methodology for using plain language in complex financial information.

Speaker: Deborah S. Bosley, Ph.D. Principal, The Plain Language Group

Full post as published by Building Rapport on October 01, 2009 (boomark / email).