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As XBRL mandate looms, SEC seeks urgent help with software

By Dominic Jones on August 25, 2008

AS THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers new rules to require companies to begin filing their documents in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), it has been having trouble finding software experts who can help make those filings usable to investors.
The commission put out a pressing call in June for contractors to help it [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Chairman Chris Cox, chris cox, EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Officer Michael Davis, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL | Leave a response

Cox to announce IDEA will replace EDGAR

By Dominic Jones on August 19, 2008

YESTERDAY afternoon, a number of bloggers got an email inviting them to a press conference webcast today with US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Chris Cox where he is supposed to unveil a “futuristic information disclosure system for investors and markets.”
No further details on this new system were provided, but at least one bit [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Chairman Chris Cox, Christopher Twarowski, disclosure, EDGAR, IDEA, interactive data, Investor Relations, SEC, XBRL | 4 Responses

SEC greenlights "notice-and-access" news releases

By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD.
Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use wire [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, business wire, disclosure, disclosure practices, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, hedge funds, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir departments, IR websites, national investor relations institute, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, nyse, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, Thomson Reuters, twitter, us sec | 4 Responses

SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted

By Dominic Jones on August 2, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD.
Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial comments [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual reports, blog, blogs, business, Compensation, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, quarterly reports, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML | 8 Responses

SEC OKs websites and blogs for Reg. FD

By Dominic Jones on July 30, 2008

UNDER certain circumstances, companies can rely on their websites and blogs to meet the public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD, according to new guidance unanimously approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission today.
The move is significant as it could cut disclosure costs for many companies that today use paid PR wire services to distribute [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogs, Chairman Chris Cox, Commissioner Paul Atkins, corporate websites, disclosure, disclosure documents, EDGAR, finance, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, John White, liability, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission | 22 Responses

SEC seeks to "blow up" forms-based system

By Dominic Jones on June 25, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange commission has launched a study that could lead to the scrapping of its 75-year-old system that requires companies to file disclosures on prescribed forms like 10Ks, Form 4s and DEF 14As.

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Bill Lutz, business, chairman arthur levitt, Chairman Chris Cox, Charles Schwab, chris cox, disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, ir department, ir departments, mandate, new york times, plain language, recommendation, retail investors, rutgers university, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, stanford university, technology, us sec, XBRL | 4 Responses

XBRL group assesses SEC rule impact

By Dominic Jones on May 17, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s plan to make eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mandatory starting next year will have few immediate benefits for companies and investors, the body charged with promoting the technology has said.
XBRL US says in a sobering white paper published on Friday that while companies won’t have much difficulty meeting the [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged EDGAR, financial management systems, financial reporting, financial statements, footnotes, management system software providers, mandate, quarterly filings, rule proposal, SEC, securities and exchange commission, us sec, usgaap, XBRL | Leave a response

SEC proposes rule to make XBRL mandatory

By Dominic Jones on May 15, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing a rule for all companies to file their annual and quarterly reports in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) on a staged basis over the next three years.
Under the proposal, the 500 largest companies — including foreign firms that use US GAAP — will begin filing XBRL [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual reports, business, disclosure, EDGAR, EDGAR Online, financial reporting, footnotes, ir magazine, IR websites, James Lopez, Morningstar, news releases, SEC, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, Standard & Poor's, technology, Thomson Reuters, WebCPA, XBRL | 3 Responses

SEC does first conference call with bloggers

By Dominic Jones on April 18, 2008

IN A first for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a group of 13 bloggers were invited to a special conference call Friday to talk about XBRL ahead of the SEC’s meeting to consider making the financial tagging language mandatory.
I was one of the bloggers on the call with David Blaszkowsky, director of the [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Bill Cara, bloggers, business, chris cox, conference call, David Blaszkowsky, Deepak Ramachandran, disclosure, EDGAR, Investor Relations, Kristin Kaepplein, mashups, securities and exchange commission, T. Rowe Price, technology, wikinomics, XBRL | 2 Responses

Build better insider filings pages with free feeds

By Dominic Jones on April 9, 2008

WHEN it comes to disclosing insider trading on their investor relations websites, companies’ practices vary widely. Most firms give the information little thought, while a few go out of their way to make the information easy for investors to access and digest.
But with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adding free XML-based news feeds [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, insider trading, Investor Relations, rss, SEC filings | 2 Responses

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