October 8, 2020
Samples: Improving Your CD&A
– Liz Dunshee
Check out this 66-page Argyle guide to enhanced compensation disclosures in proxy statements. It highlights sample disclosures – organized into these categories:
1. Inclusion of Table of Contents in CD&A
2. Inclusion of a Letter from the Compensation Committee
3. Executive Compensation Overview
4. Presentation of Compensation Principles/Objectives/Philosophy
5. Presentation of Feedback & Responses on Shareholder Engagement
6. Presentation of Compensation Elements
7. Presentation of Metrics Used in Incentive Programs
8. Inclusion of the Evolution of the Company’s Executive Compensation Program
9. Presentation of Compensation Process
10. Presentation of Peer Groups
11. Presentation of Goals & Performance
12. Presentation of CEO & NEO Scorecards
13. Presentation of Other Compensation Policies & Practices
14. Other Compensation Disclosure Enhancements – Q&A, etc.