OptionEase.com

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OptionEase is a comprehensive, equity administration, valuation and compliance solution delivered via any secure web browser connection. OptionEase is SAS 70 Type II certified, is the only accounting-based application that can grow with your company’s needs to support critical assumptions and decisions for equity compensation.

More than 350 companies ranging from small privately held start-ups to large multi-national public corporations are using the OptionEase compliance solution to comply with the complex regulation of FAS 123(R) and manage their equity plans.

• Stock Option Compliance
  • Equity Valuation & Inputs
  • Expensing Equity Awards
  • Full Administration
  • Supporting the Audit
• EquitEase
  • Captable Management
  • Secure and Ease

OptionEase is software delivered as a service (SaaS), which satisfies all audit requirements regarding FAS 123 (R) Accounting for Share Based Payments.

As an experienced chief financial officer, OptionEase co-founder, Kimberly Kovacs, recognized a need for advanced accounting tools with the enactment of the FAS 123 (R) auditing standard.  The widely used method of intense and detailed spreadsheets would not be enough to track stock options or stand up to the new audit guidelines.

Kovacs quickly assembled a team with deep industry expertise in accounting, finance and Web-based software tools to develop a game-changing application for stock option accounting.  Her first investor in OptionEase was the accounting firm, Kieckhafer, Schiffer and Company because it also recognized the same need for a true compliance management solution.

With the addition of a second investor, Jan Scholes, OptionEase was on its way.  Scholes, wife of Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics for the invention of the Black-Scholes option price model, also understood the need for excellent compliance solutions and now serves on the OptionEase board of directors.

In its third year of operations, OptionEase is the compliance solution for hundreds of companies.  In addition, almost two dozen accounting, valuation and consulting firms rely on the OptionEase solution to add value for their clients and ensure they are meeting the complexities of the FAS 123 (R) rule.

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