<P style="MARGIN: 0px">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. <I>Employee Benefits Design and Planning </I>covers all this, and much more: </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Finance and accounting implications of Healthcare benefits</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Other risk benefits</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Severance benefits </DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Disability and group life insurance programs</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Flexible benefits</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Non-qualified deferred arrangements </DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">409A plans, ESOPs, Money Purchase Pension Plans, Cash Balance Plans, 401(k), 403(b) plans and 457 Plans</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Employee benefit plan financial reporting, legal compliance, and auditing</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Self-funding vs. insurance funding decisions</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Global employee benefits including umbrella pension plans and multi-national pooling</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Equity participation in employee benefit plans</DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">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.</P>