The Handbook of Employee Benefits

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Edition: 5th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-16
Publisher(s): MCG
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Summary

"The Handbook of Employee Benefits, Sixth Edition, features the knowledge and insights of more than 50 top benefits experts. It is filled with new and updated cases and real-world examples of benefit plan successes and failures." "The Handbook of Employee Benefits gives every organization and its HR practitioners and consultants the knowledge and tools they need to create plans that benefit the greatest number of employees, while allowing employers to maintain fiscal integrity and competitive advantage."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Environment of Employee Benefit Plans.

Chapter 1: The Environment of Employee Benefit Plans.

Chapter 2: Functional Approach to Designing and Evaluating Employee Benefits.

Chapter 3: Risk Concepts and Employee Benefit Planning.

Chapter 4: Regulatory Environment of Employee Benefit Plans.

Part II: Medical and Other Health Benefits.

Chapter 5: The Environment of Health Plans in the New Millennium.

Chapter 6: Health Plan Design Evolution.

Chapter 7: Understanding Managed Care Health Plans: The Managed Care Spectrum.

Chapter 8: Understanding Managed Care Health Plans: Understanding Costs and Evaluating Plans.

Chapter 9: Health Care Quality: Are We Getting Our Money's Worth?

Chapter 10: Dental Plan Design.

Chapter 11: Prescription Drug, Vision, and Hearing Care Plans.

Chapter 12: Preventive Health Care Strategies: An Overview for Employers.

Chapter 13: Long-Term Care.

Chapter 14: Disability Income Benefits.

Part III: Life Insurance Benefits.

Chapter 15: Group Life Insurance: Term and Permanent.

Chapter 16: Other Life Insurance Programs.

Part IV: Work/Life Benefits.

Chapter 17: Work/Life Benefits: An Overview.

Chapter 18: Time-Off Benefits and Family and Medical Leave Programs.

Chapter 19: Dependent Care Programs.

Chapter 20: Educational Assistance Programs & Group Legal Services Plans.

Chapter 21: Financial Planning as an Employee Benefit.

Part V: Social Insurance Programs.

Chapter 22: Social Security and Medicare.

Chapter 23: Workers' Compensation Insurance.

Chapter 24: State Unemployment Compensation Programs.

Part VI: Retirement Planning.

Chapter 25: Retirement Plan Design.

Chapter 26: Profit-Sharing Plans.

Chapter 27: Section 401 (k) Plans (Cash or Deferred Arrangements) and Thrift Plans.

Chapter 28: Cash Balance Pension Plans and Other Evolving Hybrid Pension Plans.

Chapter 29: Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).

Chapter 30: Employee Stock Compensation Plans.

Chapter 31: Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRSs), Simplified Employee Pensions (SEPs), SIMPLE Plans, and HR-10 (Keogh) Plans.

Chapter 32: Executive Compensation Plans.

Chapter 33: Section 403(b) Plans for Nonprofit Organizations.

Chapter 34: Section 457 Deferred Compensation Plans.

Chapter 35: Investment of Defined Contribution Plan Assets.

Part VII: Employee Benefit Plan Administration.

Chapter 36: Managing Employee Benefit Plans.

Chapter 37: Cafeteria Approaches to Benefit Planning.

Chapter 38: Cafeteria Plans in Operation.

Chapter 39: Fiduciary Liability Issues Under ERISA.

Chapter 40: Communicating Employee Benefits Programs.

Part VIII: Employee Benefit Plan Financial Management.

Chapter 41: Employee Benefit Plan Accounting and Reporting.

Chapter 42: Accounting and Financial Reporting for Health and Welfare Benefit Plans.

Chapter 43: Alternative Insured and Self-Funded Arrangements.

Chapter 44: Employers' Accounting for Pension Costs.

Chapter 45: Costing and Funding Retirement Benefits.

Chapter 46: Funding Retirement Plans--Investment Objectives.

Part IX: Employee Benefit Plan Issues.

Chapter 47: The Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System for Qualified Plans.

Chapter 48: Welfare Benefits for Retirees.

Chapter 49: Multiemployer Plans.

Chapter 50: State and Local Pension Plan Developments.

Chapter 51: The Globalization of Employee Benefits.

Chapter 52: The Future of Employee Benefit Plans

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