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Coming soon: SEC advice you can (maybe) understand

Coming soon: SEC advice you can (maybe) understand

By Dominic Jones on July 13, 2011

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is going to train about 125 employees to write clearer advice for issuers and their lawyers – but investors are unlikely to benefit from the simpler prose.

Posted in IR News, Law | Tagged EDGAR, plain language, regulation, SEC filings

WebFilings causes a stir with easy-to-use financial reporting tool

WebFilings causes a stir with easy-to-use financial reporting tool

By Dominic Jones on November 16, 2010

A NEW company is causing a stir in investor relations and corporate reporting circles with its financial reporting software that makes it a snap for companies to confidently create multiple disclosure documents that automatically update when figures are changed in a single spreadsheet.

Posted in Disclosure, Online IR | Tagged financial reporting, SEC filings, XBRL

41% of heavily traded US-listed international firms shun PR wires

41% of heavily traded US-listed international firms shun PR wires

By Dominic Jones on August 17, 2010

MORE than four in ten of the most actively traded US-listed international companies – including well-known firms like Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Barclays and Petrobras – are not using paid PR wires to distribute their earnings releases and other disclosure information.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged Quarterly Reporting, regulation fd, SEC filings, Web Disclosure

Sell-side research reports now in XBRL

By Dominic Jones on July 29, 2008

NEW YORK-based broker Auerbach Grayson & Company, Inc., which specializes in providing global trade execution and research to leading US institutional investors, is providing its clients with a huge global library of equity research reports in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format. The new offering, which the brokerage is offering at no charge to its [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, gaap, institutional investors, portfolio manager, portfolio managers, SEC, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL

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 Articles, Disclosure | Tagged e-proxy, EDGAR, ir department, ir departments, mandate, new york times, plain language, recommendation, retail investors, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, stanford university, technology, us sec, XBRL

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 [...]

Posted in Annual Reports, Articles, Disclosure | Tagged EDGAR, EDGAR Online, financial reporting, footnotes, ir magazine, Morningstar, news releases, SEC, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, Standard & Poor's, technology, Thomson Reuters, XBRL

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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, insider trading, rss, SEC filings

Get your SEC filings widget here!

By Dominic Jones 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, notice-and-access, SEC, SEC filings, ticker symbol, XBRL, XML

Takeover bid sites, old-economy style

By Dominic Jones on February 12, 2008

WITH tech titans Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) poised for a brawl, it might be useful for the two to see examples of companies that are right now using the Web to effectively present their bid propaganda. Ironically, the examples I have to share, whipped up after a quick Google News search [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged microsoft, nasdaq, news releases, SEC, SEC filings, technology, transcripts, yahoo

Watching two tech drunks rumble

By Dominic Jones on February 11, 2008

OUR research has long found that big technology companies are among the weakest when it comes to online investor relations communications — and we’re now seeing that manifest itself in the Yahoo!-Microsoft dust up. I’ve already highlighted how neither company is making effective use of its website to keep shareholders informed, and I’ve complained aloud [...]

Posted in Articles, Communications, Investor Relations | Tagged microsoft, online communications, SEC, SEC filings, technology, yahoo

Microsoft, Yahoo! IR teams drop ball amid bid

By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2008

IF YOU’RE a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) shareholder, you’ve probably heard the news — thanks in no part to the companies’ investor relations departments. Yes, on February 1, 2008 Microsoft proposed to acquire Yahoo! for $31 per share, apparently comprised of half cash and half Microsoft shares, or something like that. [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, EDGAR, management, microsoft, nasdaq, news releases, rss, SEC, SEC filings, shareholder.com, technology, yahoo

My gibberish was first, no mine was

By Dominic Jones on December 10, 2007

PERHAPS I shouldn’t be so flippant about XBRL, a technology that almost everyone seems to think is a big deal, but I’m more turned on by the offbeat side of events around the financial tagging language than the serious stuff. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that the XBRL U.S. GAAP [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, EDGAR, finance, management, microsoft, news releases, SEC, SEC filings, securities, technology, XBRL, yahoo

With billboards & website, activists target Steak n Shake

By Dominic Jones on November 12, 2007

A U.S. hedge fund has launched a proxy battle against a small-cap fast food chain using an unconventional combination of billboard ads and a website to rattle the company’s board and get its message out to sympathizers.The Texas-based Lion Fund has posted ads on billboards around Indianapolis, Indiana, home base of The Steak n Shake [...]

Posted in Articles, Communications, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, EDGAR, finance, management, SEC, SEC filings, strategy, yahoo

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