How to leverage the web for better compliance and investor communication Pages: 121 Screenshots: 20+ Last revised: July5, 2010 Price: only $575 BUY NOW Synopsis Corporate disclosure practices in the United States are undergoing dramatic change. New regulations and new web communications technologies are disrupting established practices. The old model is under pressure and increasingly [...]
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
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By IR Web Report 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 [...]
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By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged 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
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, blogs, 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
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, disclosure documents, EDGAR, finance, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, John White, liability, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission
By IR Web Report 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 Articles | Tagged 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
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | 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
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, 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
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged David Blaszkowsky, Deepak Ramachandran, disclosure, EDGAR, Investor Relations, Kristin Kaepplein, mashups, securities and exchange commission, T. Rowe Price, technology, wikinomics, XBRL
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, insider trading, Investor Relations, rss, SEC filings
By IR Web Report on April 6, 2008
THE EDGAR XML feeds were not even a week old and already intrepid web developers were finding new ways to reuse them. Over at iBanknet, where they have been doing interesting things with XBRL call reports, Marian Albert and Chris Smith saw the opportunity to create a little tool called a “widget” or “gadget” that [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, Google, Marian Albert, notice-and-access, SEC, SEC filings, ticker symbol, XBRL, XML
By IR Web Report on March 31, 2008
IN A move that portends dramatic changes in how disclosures are disseminated online, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added news feeds for every issuer and reporting person who files with the commission’s EDGAR database. The development is potentially bad news for news release distributors such as Business Wire, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, EDGAR, feeds, finance, financial reporting, microsoft, news releases, notice-and-access, rss, SEC, securities, XBRL, yahoo
By IR Web Report on February 19, 2008
THE Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has announced that it will take the first step towards creating a pan-European regulatory database network of issuer disclosures as required under the Transparency Directive. The move will be made as part of improvements to the MiFID database that was established last year to provide a public list [...]
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By IR Web Report on February 14, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing to shorten annual report filing deadlines for foreign companies from six months to 90 days for large companies and 120 days for smaller companies. At the same time, the SEC is proposing to require foreign companies that have established Level 1 ADR programs to publish their [...]
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