Stock plan health check for equity administration.
Check how your equity administration runs today in five areas: data accuracy, workflows, system integrations, compliance and reporting, and ROI. Then turn the biggest risks into a 30/60/90-day plan.
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From the global equity experts at Allshares, working with 1,500+ companies in 110+ countries.
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What's inside
Nine pages, five areas.
Each area opens with its goal and a checklist. As you go, you log issues with an owner and list the fixes to make first. The roadmap page then brings your top risks together in one plan.
Areas 1 to 3
Data, workflows, and integrations
Check grants against your source-of-truth documents, along with vesting schedules, terminations, and reconciliations. Map who's responsible, accountable, and consulted at each workflow step, from grant creation to GL posting. Then test how cleanly your equity, HRIS, payroll, and finance systems share data.
- Checks across the three areas
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- Workflow steps in the RACI table
- 8
- Integration issues to watch for
- 4
Pages 3 to 5
Areas 4 and 5, then the roadmap
Compliance, ROI, and your roadmap
Score eight compliance areas from 0 to 2, among them SOX controls, 6039 reporting, Section 16, and tax withholding. Check the return on your equity plans and whether your team depends on one person. Then list your top risks and next steps, and outline a 30/60/90-day plan.
- Compliance areas, each scored 0 to 2
- 8
- Key-person risk checks
- 5
- Top risks to prioritize
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Pages 6 to 8
From the toolkit
Check your key-person risk.
The ROI page asks whether your team has backup for its key roles, or one person doing everything. Tap each line that's true for your team today.
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Who it's for
Written for the team that runs the plan.
It's for stock plan administrators and the HR, payroll, finance, and legal partners who keep an equity program running. It gives you an early read on how your processes perform today, whichever system or provider holds your data.
Work through it with the people who own each step. The workflow page has a column for who's responsible, who's accountable, and who's consulted.
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Common questions
Stock plan health check questions.
What is a stock plan health check?
A structured review of how your equity administration runs today. This toolkit covers five areas: data accuracy, workflows, system integrations, compliance and reporting, and return on investment. It ends with a roadmap of your top risks and next steps.
What does the data accuracy check cover?
Six checks. Grants match your source-of-truth documents, vesting schedules are correct and current, terminations are updated and synced, and transactions reconcile across systems. There are no duplicate records and no rounding or share-count discrepancies. For why data comes first, read our article on data integrity. Stock Plan Health Check: Data Integrity
Who should fill it in?
Start with whoever leads equity administration, then bring in payroll, finance, HRIS, and your broker or vendor contact. The toolkit asks you to name each of them, along with a backup admin.
Is the toolkit legal or compliance advice?
No. It's a checklist to work through with your team. It flags areas such as SOX controls, 6039 reporting, and Section 16 for review. For legal or tax questions, talk to your counsel or tax adviser.
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