creative employee benefit and retirement planning for use by practicing financial planners, insurance agents, accountants, attorneys and other financial services professionals, as well as company managers, personnel departments, and law and graduate school students. It is designed to meet these professionals' needs for timely and accurate introductory, overview, or review information in this area. Such needs are increasing for two reasons. First, the high direct and indirect expenses involved with recruiting, retaining and ultimately retiring employees mandates a careful search for the benefit and compensation package that will accomplesh an employer's objectives in the most cost effective way. Second, in recent years, there has been a tremendous growth in federal legislation and regulatory activity in the compensation area; this increases the difficulty of designing benefit packages and also the cost (in taxes and penalties to employer and employee) of mistakes in benefit planning.

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