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Information Today
February 18, 2010 |
Morningstar Acquires Financial Fineprint Business, Footnoted.org Footnoted's research staff pores over hundreds of SEC filings a day to unearth critical information buried in the fine print.   |
Investment Advisor
February 2010 |
Securities Lawsuits Down The number of federal securities class action law suits filed dropped sharply in 2009. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Your Own Personal Deep Throat Do you know all there is to know about the stocks you own? The government does. You can, too. EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval) is an investor's best friend. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Thomson's Numbers Why does Thomson emphasize its free cash flow production rather than its reported earnings under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Meet the SEC If you're an investor, you have a friend. His name is EDGAR (the acronym for the database hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission). |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Fuqi International Shares Popped: What You Need to Know I am wary of any company being investigated by the SEC, so watch that you don't get caught in an avalanche if it finds something. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
McCormack & Stone |
Blogging For Dollars Here, we've identified some of the most worthwhile investing blogs. The AAO Weblog... The Asset Allocator... The Big Picture... etc. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
Check the Footnotes, Dude! When you're urged to read annual reports and 10-K reports and other SEC filings from cover to cover, remember that that includes footnotes -- because that's often where you'll find things that the company may hope you won't notice. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The SEC's Gift to You Securities regulation helps guard investors against fraud. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Take a Footnote, Please One of the best ways to learn how a company works is to study the footnotes from its financial filings. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Out of the Dark Ages of Investing The Internet democratized financial information. |
Information Today
August 18, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
The End of the Corporate News Release? On July 30, 2008, the SEC (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission) staff recommended that the commission issue an interpretative release to provide additional guidance to companies wishing to use their websites as vehicles to provide information to investors. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Suits Against Financial Firms Driving Litigation Activity In the first half of 2009 suits against financial services firms and foreign firms increased. |
CFO
May 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
The SEC Has a Few Questions for You This is the envelope no CFO looks forward to opening, even if the inquiry proves to be fairly routine. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Inside a Proxy Statement Proxies often reveal gems shareholders don't want to miss. |
The Motley Fool
April 1, 2005
Rich Duprey |
The Inside Track to Big Profits Senior management, the so-called corporate "insider," has intimate knowledge of its businesses' operations. Insider transactions can signal to investors the right time to make big profits. Knowing which signals to watch and which to ignore is the key. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
In the Small Print Investors, get out your trusty magnifying glass and look at these juicy financial footnotes. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Get Your Special K You should pay attention when a company you own files its 10-K. These reports offer key data to help you build a richer portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
Buckle Shares the Wealth The retailer's quarterly filings reveal an impressive stock buyback. |
CFO
March 1, 2009
Marie Leone |
It's Here (Seriously) The SEC mandates the use of data-tagging for public company financial results. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Is Miva Marketing Itself? Read the fine print: The paid-search innovator could be shopping itself to the highest bidder. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The SEC's Gift to You: Part 2 By giving the investing public access to information, and serving as a regulator with the power to take action to correct problems, the SEC works hard to protect investors. |
CFO
November 1, 2010
David McCann |
18,000 Errors and Counting The number of mistakes in XBRL-tagged financial statements continues to pile up, but results are actually better than expected so far. |
Registered Rep.
February 11, 2004
John Churchill |
Dueling Trend Lines on Complaints Brokers have become more attuned to investor complaints in recent years, but they must be forgiven if they're having a hard time drawing conclusions from the trend numbers reported by regulators. |
Information Today
August 21, 2008 |
SEC Announces a New IDEA--The Successor to EDGAR Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 21, 2004
Beth Bacheldor |
Looking for Trouble Under new IT leadership, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is upgrading technology to become a better watchdog and maintain market confidence. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Robert Barker |
A Legal Way to Keep Investors in the Dark Just when you thought transparency in corporate financial reporting was improving, along comes this: More public companies are telling the Securities & Exchange Commission they will deregister, meaning they will stop submitting quarterly financial reports and other key disclosures. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Investing in Presto's Dim Future The small-appliance maker may soon find itself in hot water with the SEC. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Marvell's Results On Hold The semiconductor company, bitten by the stock options bug, must delay SEC filings. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2006
Roy Mark |
SEC Brings Proxies Online Shareholders will soon be able to find proxy statements and annual reports online, according to new voluntary rules approved this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Google Boggles the Mind If hundreds of millions worth of insider sales seems excessive, you need to recheck your math. Whether the shares continue to defy gravity from here is another question. It seems to me that insiders are betting that it's less likely, at least for the immediate future. |
Information Today
January 5, 2009 |
SEC Approves Requirement of Interactive Data for Financial Reporting With interactive data, all of the facts in a financial statement are labeled with unique computer-readable "tags," which function like bar codes to make financial information more searchable on the internet. |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003
Spencer E. Ante |
The Secret Behind Those Profit Jumps Many companies are boosting earnings by reversing write-downs and not disclosing it. |
InternetNews
April 13, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Report: SEC to Charge TW Over AOL Ad Deal A probe over the ISP's accounting for $400 million in questionable ad revenue will reportedly culminate in a formal charge for AOL parent Time Warner this summer. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Register.com on Nasdaq Watch List Financial irregularities put the company on the de-listing hot seat. |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Elizabeth D. Festa |
Industry Hit by Class Actions The subprime/liquidity crisis has led to 97 federal securities class action filings in 2008. |
CFO
August 1, 2007
Kate O'Sullivan |
The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before. |
InternetNews
January 13, 2006
Clint Boulton |
SEC is Probing IBM Earnings The Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into IBM's first-quarter 2005 accounting practices is now official. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Alix Nyberg |
Regulation: Pitt and the Pendulum The kinder, gentler SEC Pitt envisioned vanished faster than you can say Arthur Andersen. Can he run a tougher, meaner agency? |
Fast Company
May 2005 |
Best Business Blogs: Women at Work BLOG: Found in the Footnotes... BLOG: Marketing at Microsoft... BLOG: Pause... BLOG: Decent Marketing... BLOG: Decent Marketing... BLOG: Misbehaving... |
Investment Advisor
March 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Fiduciary Rule May Hit by Summer Despite the advisory industry's hopes that the Securities and Exchange Commission would get a quick start on writing a rule to put brokers under the same fiduciary standard as advisors, it looks as though a rulemaking could come by summer. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Invest Like Gordon Gekko Do you know what to look for before you invest? Take a lesson from the fictional paragon of greed: Investing is entirely about information. The more of it you have, the better your potential returns. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2004
Kevin Newcomb |
Salesforce.com Hits Bump on Road to IPO Excessive media coverage has caused the on-demand CRM provider to delay its offering, but the road to an IPO has now been cleared. |
Fast Company
May 2005 |
Chic Lit Women create more than half of all blogs, says a research firm. But in the business world, blogs penned by women are less common. Here, three smart women sound off. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
A Shiny New Year for CEO Pay Disclosure While the EDGAR database has gone a while without any major innovations, there's finally some good news to report. It has now upped its functionality by a long shot by offering a new XBRL enhancement. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Marie Leone |
Convergence Divergence Critics question the entire rationale for adopting international financial reporting standards. |
CFO
September 1, 2012
Kathleen Hoffelder |
SEC Report Backs Away from Convergence The commission's staff expresses hesitation about merging international standards and U.S. GAAP. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Barry Rehfeld |
Another Tough Top Cop? When President Bush tapped Christopher Cox to replace William Donaldson, it looked like Bush was swapping an aggressive reformer for a kinder, gentler regulator. Yet since he took over as SEC chairman, Cox has shown that he is not the anti-Donaldson. |
CFO
July 1, 2007
Michelle Leder |
Drowning in Data The new compensation disclosure rules deliver plenty of information. Too bad much of it doesn't make sense. Clearly, CFOs have more responsibilities than ever before, the annual proxy statement being just one. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Class Act Securities class-action lawsuit filings were at their lowest level in a decade in the first half of this year, according to a recent report. |
