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(planes de) acciones ficticias

English translation: notional/phantom share plan


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Spanish term or phrase:plan de acciones ficticias
English translation:notional/phantom share plan
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16:50 May 10, 2010
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Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / Stocks & shares
Spanish term or phrase: (planes de) acciones ficticias
A phrase describing various possible non-salary benefits:

Participación en el capital de la empresa (planes de compra de actuaciones, Stock Options, planes de acciones ficticias, etc.)
Neil Mann
United States
Local time: 02:48
notional share plans
Explanation:
This means that employees are regarded as owning shares even though they don't. "Fictitious" is not the right word because it has connotations of fraud, which is not the case here.
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philgoddard
Local time: 01:48
Grading comment
This is the one that seems to fit best in the context (generalized context, for non-specialist readers) because it has no whiff of underhand business.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2phantom stock plans
argosys
5fictious action plans
britos
4notional share plansphilgoddard


  

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fictious action plans


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Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ranges for fictitious telephone numbers are common in most telephone numbering plans. ... In Night Watch, a Russian action fantasy horror film, two real ...
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britos
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jessica Noyes: yes, when spelled "fictitious"
54 mins
  -> absolutely right, thank you.....

disagree  philgoddard: acciones means shares.
1 hr
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notional share plans


Explanation:
This means that employees are regarded as owning shares even though they don't. "Fictitious" is not the right word because it has connotations of fraud, which is not the case here.

Example sentence(s):
  • Staff with annual incentive awards above a certain threshold are awarded a component in UBS shares or notional shares instead of cash.

    Reference: http://www.ubs.com/1/e/about/ouremployees/investing_in_emplo...
philgoddard
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This is the one that seems to fit best in the context (generalized context, for non-specialist readers) because it has no whiff of underhand business.
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
phantom stock plans


Explanation:

acciones ficticias
ac·cio·nes fic·ti·cias Feminine - Noun - Plural

1. phantom stock; Synonyms: acciones fantasma
http://www.wordmagicsoft.com/dictionary/es-en/acciones ficti...

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los planes de acciones ficticias (phantom stock plans), en los que el empleado adquiere el derecho de una percepción monetaria vinculada al valor de las ...
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Phantom stock Financial Terms. ... como "mirror stock" o "shadow stock", lo podés decir como "acciones fanatsma" o si vos querés, como "acciones ficticias". ...
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"....Acciones fantasma. Pago a los ejecutivos un prima proporcional al cambio de precio de las acciones de la empresa y no en función de los cambios de las mediciones de la rentabilidad. Una acción fantasma es tan sólo una partida contable porque el ejecutivo no llega a recibir acciones propiamente dichas...."

Payment to executives, a bonus proportional to the change in the price of shares in the company and not in terms of changes in measures of profitability. (It) is only a bookkeeping entry because the Executive did not receive the shares ...."

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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ruth Ramsey: Makes sense.
7 hrs
  -> Thanks, Ruth, though it failed to convince.

agree  philgoddard
14 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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