What if there were a way an owner of a private company could: * Sell stock of the company, pay no tax on the proceeds, and still keep control? * Increase the company's working capital and cash flow with no cash expenditure? * Provide employees with equity at no cash outlay on anyone's part? * Make life insurance premiums tax deductible? * Increase productivity, profitability, and company value with no cash outlay? * Allow the corporation to operate in a totally tax-free environment? An ESOP-- Employee Stock Ownership Plan-- does all that and it does it with the sanction and encouragement of the United States Congress. ESOP: The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning, Second Edition is a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand guide emphasizing the corporate financial benefits that an employee stock ownership plan can offer as a business financing instrument. Written by noted expert Robert Frisch and updated to include the latest developments, this book explains in clear language ESOPs work and how owners of private corporations can use them as versatile financial tools to achieve their succession planning objectives.

Employee Ownership Through ESOPs: Implications for the Public Corporation summarizes the large body of literature on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and the phenomenon of employee ownership. The author has discovered and reviewed over 700 articles on the subject in academic and professional journals of business, labor, law, and social science since 1973. The study is divided into four parts. The first part examines law, public policy, and regulation; the status of ESOPs in the publicly held corporation; corporate uses and labor-management roles; the impact of the ESOP on labor-management cooperation and the economic performance of firms; and the future of employee ownership. The second part presents selected case studies which illustrate the range of corporate uses and benefits to workers and the difficult issues these raise. The third part presents abstracts of articles or books that are central to understanding the major findings and implications of employee ownership and gaining an ordered introduction to the field. The fourth part includes references to these abstracted materials and to the subjects discussed in the first and second sections. This study emphasizes the significance of employee ownership to corporate officers, middle managers, union officials, and/or local labor representatives and employee leaders who are associated with a publicly held company.

A comprehensive yet easy-to-understand guide emphasizing the corporate financial benefits that an employee stock ownership plan can offer as a business financing instrument. Describes COBRA '93 ESOP changes, which permit businesses to reduce taxes by contributing to an ESOP, the availability of ESOPs to S corporations and shareholders and how to defer or avoid tax on sales of ESOP stock. Provides excellent advice to small, closely-held corporations on how to use the ESOP as a tool to design compensation arrangements which motivate, retain and recruit employees.