Share-Based Compensation Plans

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2014

Cooper has several share-based compensation plans that are described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10‑K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2013. The compensation expense and related income tax benefit recognized in our consolidated financial statements for share-based awards were as follows:



Three Months Ended January 31,
(In millions)	2014		2013
Selling, general and administrative expense	$	13.4	$	8.5
Cost of sales	0.8		0.5
Research and development expense	0.6		0.4
Capitalized in inventory	0.8		0.5
Total share-based compensation expense	$	15.6	$	9.9
Related income tax benefit	$	4.9	$	3.0

- Definition

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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