The Handbook of Employee Benefits (Hardcover, 5th)

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