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| Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block] |
In April 2014, the Company adopted the Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2014 Plan”), reserving a total of 1,351,000 shares of common stock for grants to employees, officers, directors and consultants. As of March 31, 2016, 369,033 shares are available for grant. Permissible awards include incentive stock options, non-statutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units (“RSUs”), performance stock and cash-settled awards and other stock-based awards in the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors including unrestricted stock grants. The RSUs contain a provision in which the units shall immediately vest and become converted into the right to receive a cash payment payable on the original vesting date after a change in control as defined in the award agreement. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors decided there would be no cash bonuses paid to executives for 2015, and instead approved the issuance of a total of 225,000 restricted shares of common stock, with vesting contingent on meeting 2015 financial objectives, to three senior executives. The outside members of the Board were also awarded a total of 100,000 restricted shares of common stock with the same vesting. During March 2016, all of the shares vested upon the achievement of specified operating results and are included in the issued and outstanding common shares as of March 31, 2016. The Company recognizes compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the total requisite service period for the entire award. For RSUs classified as equity, the market price of our common stock on the date of grant is used in recording the fair value of the award. For RSUs classified as a liability, the earned amount is marked to market based on the end of period common stock price. The amount of RSUs classified as a liability was $43,750 at March 31, 2016 and is included in accrued compensation in the condensed consolidated balance sheet. The following table summarizes the components of share-based compensation expense for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and 2015:
The following table summarizes transactions for RSUs and restricted stock under the 2014 Plan for the three months ended March 31, 2016:
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