Certent Equity Compensation Management, now part of Insightsoftware since the January 21 acquisition, helps companies stay compliant in the administration of equity awards and grants.
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Uplaw
Score9 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Uplaw is an equity management solution helping CFO, Legal and HR teams managed their equity. Uplaw digitalizes captable and Employee Stock Options Plans, and provides tools for tracking employee stock options, managing cap tables, and facilitating shareholder communications. Uplaw simplifies equity management workflow, and helps to ensure that organizations can stay compliant with regulations while providing transparency to employees and investors. Its open API and…
Certent Equity Management is well suited in the following ways: 1. [The] software provides seamless integration to internal software. 2. [It provides] detailed reports of market equity management. 3. [The] software prepares financial equity footnotes for 10k reporting very well. 4. It helps with award modification [as] needed. 5. I enjoy doing capitalization tables.
Uplaw is easy to access, visualize and use, when organisations have deployed multiple grants and stock options plans inside teams, business units, and countries. My teams and I can access to all our grants, visualize strike price as well as vesting plans, cadicity and sunset, and potential gains. Whatever type of options plans is granted, the solution can manage it.
Expense calculations – the whole accounting for equity awards is pretty technical and not real easy to follow. It does a good job of calculating GAAP expense for each award.
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I personally like the Equity Edge software better. The reporting is better and the software easier to use. The reason we didn’t continue to work with them is we didn’t want to use E-Trade as captive broker.
A lot of decisions had been made already when I joined. I thought it was a fairly smooth process. You just need to make sure that you do a good job of auditing all the awards that are transferred from system to system. We did a reverse stock split that caused challenges with rounding of shares.
As an organization, we have evaluated various Equity management and accounting software before shortlisting and testing these software and finally selecting 1 software. It has a user-friendly interface that helps and encourages employee participation. Moreover, it has simple and easy-to-understand grants and reporting, which are illustrated by easy-to-understand examples.
