Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

question 22

Multiple Choice

Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) :

• A) are types of broad-based stock ownership plans
• B) grant shares of stock to employees as a means of long-term savings and retirement
• C) usually do not link stocks that can be purchased to individual or group performance indicators
• D) vary in when payments are made
• E) are accurately described by all of the above

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