Discover what cash wages are, how they're reported, and examples of their use in compensation, offering clarity on taxable ...

Tax reform made few changes that directly impact qualified retirement plans; however, it made some changes that may indirectly impact qualified retirement plans. We previously blogged on the indirect ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

One of the most common errors in 401(k) plan administration continues to be a mismatch between a plan’s definition of compensation and the actual compensation taken into account for plan purposes ...

Share-based compensation gives a company's employees equity ownership rights. The objective of share compensation is to align the interests of employees, management and shareholders. The reasoning is ...

A Non-Highly Compensated Employee (NHCE) is an employee who does not meet the income and ownership thresholds defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for Highly Compensated Employees (HCEs).

“Fee-only” compensation — for over a decade an effective rallying cry for the RIA movement — is now more strictly defined under the CFP Board’s revised rules, whose enforcement period began this month ...