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By Dominic Jones on July 28, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is slated to consider publishing long-awaited new guidance governing how companies can use their websites to communicate with investors. According to a notice, the commission will meet Wednesday to consider publishing the “interpretive release” that is expected to address a number of important issues that could set precedents [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, corporate websites, disclosure, disclosure documents, Investor Relations, IR websites, online annual reports, plain language, proxy statements, quarterly reports, regulation fd, SEC, securities and exchange commission, usability requirements, web technology
By Dominic Jones on June 3, 2008
THE online annual reporting period in Europe and North America is drawing to a close — and except for an elite group of forward-thinking companies it has been a disappointing season. This was the first year where many companies had the option of delivering their reports on the web as the default option. This was [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, corporate reporting, disclosure, e-proxy, electronic delivery, online annual reports, proxy statements, securities and exchange commission, usability
By Dominic Jones on February 29, 2008
CANADIAN investor relations departments are failing to take advantage of web technology to communicate essential information and provide services to their investors, a study commissioned by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) has found. As part of a broader review of corporate reporting, a study group comprised of accounting and investor relations experts evaluated [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, SEC, technology, transcripts
By Dominic Jones on February 13, 2008
A PRIVATE advisory committee of the US Securities and Exchange Commission this week voted to recommend a watered down implementation of mandatory XBRL, prompting one member to warn that the move could “invite a chaotic outcome” and delay the technology well into the “next decade.” In a dissenting statement included in the SEC Advisory Committee [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, financial reporting, inline XBRL, Investor Relations, Peter Wallison, SEC, technology, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on January 31, 2008
PERHAPS it’s a testament to how far corporate reporting and disclosure have come, but there was a time when shareholders had no way of knowing exactly how much they were paying senior executives to run their companies. Then came new regulations and companies began to disclose more precisely how much their top executives were being [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, finance, SEC, securities, ticker symbol, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on January 24, 2008
MOVING forward on mandatory XBRL, issuing new guidance for corporate website disclosures, and keeping an eye on the e-proxy process are among the key priorities for the US Securities and Exchange Commission this year. In a speech Wednesday in San Diego, John White, the SEC’s Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, provided an update [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate reporting, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, earnings, feeds, finance, financial reporting, rss, SEC, securities, technology, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on January 13, 2008
A COMMITTEE created to advise the SEC on improving corporate reporting has urged the agency to update its eight-year-old guidelines for the use of corporate websites for investor disclosure. The Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting says there are “continuing concerns about the treatment of website disclosures under the federal securities laws that some [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate reporting, corporate websites, disclosure, financial reporting, Investor Relations, law, NIRI, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on December 7, 2007
THE Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants has awarded its Award of Excellence for Electronic Disclosure to oil and gas company Nexen Inc.Runner up in the annual awards for electronic disclosure, which I recently rated as among the most reliable of such awards programs, was past three-in-row winner PotashCorp, the international fertilizer company. (Disclosure: We have [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, feeds, Investor Relations, IR websites, rss, SEC, strategy, usability, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on June 10, 2007
By Dominic Jones I CAUGHT NYSE-Euronext CEO John Thain’s presentation at the NIRI Annual Conference last week via webcast and found his views on the challenges facing the U.S. investor relations profession in an increasingly global market most interesting. He spoke at some length about the changes taking place for global stock markets and about [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, Investor Relations, NIRI, SEC, technology
By Dominic Jones on June 7, 2007
By Dominic Jones IT SAYS a lot about the quality of the people in the Canadian investor relations profession when IR consultants are more concerned about the integrity of the country’s capital markets than its regulators and main stock exchanges. That seems to be the case with the recent acquisition by TSX Group Inc. of [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, Investor Relations, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on October 20, 2006
There are 6 items… Directors Link Firms in Option Probe | Hedge funds take in record $44.5 bln in 3rd qtr | Corporate Blogging: What Could Go Wrong? | Corporate reporting – Putting the right message in the right bottle | Investor Relations Internet Sites: Practices of European Listed Companies | Stanford uncovers ‘Net addicts’ [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate reporting, Dan Gillmor, disclosure, financial communication tools, Investor Relations, IR websites, journalist, law
By Dominic Jones on August 22, 2006
Here are links to 9 articles … British individual investors pull £6bn out of the market | Applebee’s IRO sets stakeholders’ table | Junk Bond Fees at Record Low | Web 2.0: What on earth is it and should you care? | UK Executive Rewards Fail to Reflect Performance, PwC | Marketing Reality Check: Blogs, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate reporting, FTSE 100, management, rss, SEC, securities, strategy, technology, Yale School
By Dominic Jones on April 12, 2006
OK, here’s what we know: Investors mostly access corporate reporting information online and they are mostly interested in financial statements. So why would a company post its financial statements on the Web in a format that makes it next to impossible to read or use online? Clearly they shouldn’t, yet that’s exactly what I was [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, Investor Relations, PDF
By Dominic Jones on September 7, 2005
LESS than 10% of the world’s 100 largest public companies are meeting basic usability requirements for their online annual reports to shareholders — and standards have worsened over the past three years. These are the main findings of an in-depth comparison of the online annual reports of the S&P Global 100 Index companies, the world’s [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, corporate reporting, Investor Relations, usability
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