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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...