NATS-Annual-Report-2015

Annual Report and Accounts 2015 | NATS Holdings Limited
Financial Statements 138
Notes forming part of the
consolidated accounts
(continued)
27. Share based payments
The company operates an All-Employee Share Ownership Plan for the benefit of employees to hold 5% of the share capital of the
company. The plan is administered by NATS Employee Sharetrust Limited. The scheme allows for free shares, dividend shares, partnership
shares and matching shares to be awarded to employees. The free shares and matching shares have a vesting period of three years from
date of award and may be cash-settled from this date. The shares may be forfeited if the employee leaves within three years of the date
of the award, depending on conditions of departure.
A liability is recognised for the current fair value of shares in issue at each balance sheet date. Changes in fair value of the liability are
charged or credited to the income statement. The number of shares outstanding at the balance sheet date was:
Date of share awards
No. shares
awarded to
employees
No. employee
shares
outstanding at
31 March 2015
No. employee
shares
outstanding at
31 March 2014
Free share awards
21 September 2001 3,353,742 376,757 443,320
20 October 2003 2,459,000 353,218 414,934
10 September 2004 1,966,000 546,818 661,039
11 January 2008 1,071,840 444,100 550,080
18 September 2009 963,200 527,371 738,820
Partnership shares
1 March 2011 694,783 568,408 611,041
1 September 2012 714,959 628,257 672,112
30 May 2014 496,738 466,750 -
Matching shares
1 March 2011 694,783 572,260 611,041
1 September 2012 714,959 628,257 672,112
30 May 2014 496,738 466,750 -
5,578,946 5,374,499
Dividend shares issued on 28 June 2005 247,017 45,306 52,978
Total employee shares in issue at 31 March 5,624,252 5,427,477
The movement in the number of employee shares outstanding is as follows:
Movement
in the no. of
shares during
the year ended
31 March 2015
Movement
in the no. of
shares during
the year ended
31 March 2014
Balance at 1 April 5,427,477 5,851,028
Granted during the year 993,476 -
Forfeited during the year (11,943) (9,443)
Exercised during the year (784,758) (414,108)
Balance at 31 March 5,624,252 5,427,477
These shares are valued every six months by independent valuers using discounted cash flow and income multiple methods of valuation.
As at 31 March 2015 the price of an employee share was valued at £4.30 (2014: £4.50). A valuation at 30 June 2014 valued the shares at
£4.35. The liability on the balance sheet for the employee shares at 31 March 2015 was £21.8m (2014: £21.7m) included in other accruals
and deferred income. The payments made to employees for the shares they exercised during the year was £3.4m (2014: £1.7m).
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