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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 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

SEC posts text of proposed XBRL rule

By Dominic Jones on May 30, 2008

JUST in time for the weekend, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today posted the full text of the proposed rules for mandatory XBRL filings for domestic and foreign public companies.
The proposed rules (embedded below) apply to domestic and foreign public companies that prepare their financial statements according to U.S. GAAP, and foreign firms [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual report, annual reports, financial information, financial statements, foreign private issuers, gaap, IASB, interactive data, law, liability regime, quarterly reports, rule proposal, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, us sec, usgaap, XBRL | 2 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 [...]

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