Share-Based Compensation Plans	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Share-Based Compensation Plans	7. Share-Based Compensation Plans The company may grant a variety of share-based payments under the 2012 Long Term Incentive Plan of C. R. Bard, Inc., as amended and restated (the “LTIP”) and the 2005 Directors’ Stock Award Plan of C. R. Bard, Inc., as amended and restated (the “Directors’ Plan”) to certain directors, officers and employees. The total number of remaining shares at March 31, 2015 that may be issued under the LTIP was 4,753,485 and under the Directors’ Plan was 31,462. At the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April 15, 2015, the shareholders authorized an additional 1,500,000 shares for issuance under the LTIP. Awards under the LTIP may be in the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, limited stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, unrestricted stock and other stock-based awards. Awards under the Directors’ Plan may be in the form of stock awards, stock options or stock appreciation rights. The company also has two employee stock purchase programs. For the quarters ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, amounts charged against income for share-based payment arrangements were $23.0 million and $19.5 million, respectively. In the first quarter of each of 2015 and 2014, the company granted performance restricted stock units to certain officers. These units have requisite service periods of three years and have no dividend rights. The actual payout of these units varies based on the company’s performance over the three-year period based on pre-established targets over the period and a market condition modifier based on total shareholder return (“TSR”) compared to an industry peer group. The actual payout under these awards may exceed an officer’s target payout; however, compensation cost initially recognized assumes that the target payout level will be achieved and may be adjusted for subsequent changes in the expected outcome of the performance-related condition. The fair values of these units are based on the market price of the company’s stock on the date of the grant and use a Monte Carlo simulation model for the TSR component. The fair values of the TSR components of the 2015 and 2014 grants were estimated based on the following assumptions: risk-free interest rate of 0.86% and 0.70%, respectively; dividend yield of 0.51% and 0.62%, respectively; and expected life of 2.78 and 2.88 years, respectively. As of March 31, 2015, there were $115.9 million of unrecognized compensation expenses related to share-based payment arrangements. These costs are expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately three years. The company has sufficient shares to satisfy expected share-based payment arrangements in 2015.

Share-Based Compensation Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

7. Share-Based Compensation Plans

The company may grant a variety of share-based payments under the 2012 Long Term Incentive Plan of C. R. Bard, Inc., as amended and restated (the “LTIP”) and the 2005 Directors’ Stock Award Plan of C. R. Bard, Inc., as amended and restated (the “Directors’ Plan”) to certain directors, officers and employees. The total number of remaining shares at March 31, 2015 that may be issued under the LTIP was 4,753,485 and under the Directors’ Plan was 31,462. At the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April 15, 2015, the shareholders authorized an additional 1,500,000 shares for issuance under the LTIP. Awards under the LTIP may be in the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, limited stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, unrestricted stock and other stock-based awards. Awards under the Directors’ Plan may be in the form of stock awards, stock options or stock appreciation rights. The company also has two employee stock purchase programs.

For the quarters ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, amounts charged against income for share-based payment arrangements were $23.0 million and $19.5 million, respectively.

In the first quarter of each of 2015 and 2014, the company granted performance restricted stock units to certain officers. These units have requisite service periods of three years and have no dividend rights. The actual payout of these units varies based on the company’s performance over the three-year period based on pre-established targets over the period and a market condition modifier based on total shareholder return (“TSR”) compared to an industry peer group. The actual payout under these awards may exceed an officer’s target payout; however, compensation cost initially recognized assumes that the target payout level will be achieved and may be adjusted for subsequent changes in the expected outcome of the performance-related condition. The fair values of these units are based on the market price of the company’s stock on the date of the grant and use a Monte Carlo simulation model for the TSR component. The fair values of the TSR components of the 2015 and 2014 grants were estimated based on the following assumptions: risk-free interest rate of 0.86% and 0.70%, respectively; dividend yield of 0.51% and 0.62%, respectively; and expected life of 2.78 and 2.88 years, respectively.

As of March 31, 2015, there were $115.9 million of unrecognized compensation expenses related to share-based payment arrangements. These costs are expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately three years. The company has sufficient shares to satisfy expected share-based payment arrangements in 2015.

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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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