ESOP Accounting under Ind AS 102 - Overview
📌 TL;DR - ESOP Accounting Services at a Glance
ESOP accounting under Ind AS 102 requires recognising the grant-date fair value of equity-settled options as a compensation expense over the vesting period, with a corresponding credit to an ESOP Reserve under equity. Cash-settled SARs are recognised as a liability remeasured at each reporting date. Non-Ind AS companies follow the ICAI Guidance Note on Accounting for Share-based Payments 2020. The expense is computed via Black-Scholes or Binomial pricing, adjusted for service-based forfeitures and modifications.
ESOP accounting is the statutory expense recognition layer that translates a grant of stock options into Profit and Loss compensation cost over the vesting period. The exact treatment depends on whether the company applies Ind AS or the older AS framework, and on whether the scheme is equity-settled (ESOP) or cash-settled (SAR or Phantom Stock).
Patron Accounting LLP provides Ind AS 102 expense computation, Black-Scholes fair valuation, year-wise schedule, journal entries and Schedule III note disclosure as part of the audit engagement or as a standalone ESOP accounting deliverable. The firm has handled ESOP accounting for startups, growth-stage companies and listed entities since 2009, with CA, audit and tax teams under one roof across offices in Pune, Mumbai, Delhi and Gurugram.
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