Yesterday I posted about the importance of the controls over the vehicle in which corporate disclosure is distributed.As I mentioned, it wasn’t supposed to be about plugging our products, but as I was creating the post using Q4 PRESS I took a few screen shots throughout to be able to demonstrate how simple it was.  Read more to see how simple it is to satisfy Reg FD for blog content with Q4 PRESS.
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On September 24, 2008, representatives from the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) will hold a free information session for industry participants and members of the media on the increasing use and importance of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language).
The information session will feature expert speakers from the CSA and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) who will discuss recent proposals by the SEC for the mandatory use of XBRL, as well as the move to XBRL in Canada.
“As a business reporting language, XBRL will make it easier for investors and analysts …

Earlier today the SEC Chairmen, Christopher Cox unveiled the successor to the form based EDGAR database.   The new system is called IDEA (Interactive Data Electronic Applications) and will be built on an XBRL based platform that will give investors access to faster and more detailed financial information than ever before.
IDEA is the latest in a string of significant announcements that have come out of the SEC including, XBRL mandate and the guidance on web disclosure and RegFD. There have already been a number of posts regarding this announcement and it …

If you’ve had a chance to go through the 47 page guidance and specifically the section regarding “dissemination” of information and what “public” means in the context of RegFD and the corporate web site you’ve likely been left scratching your head thinking “ok, so now what?”The issue of what constitutes public information is one of the grey areas of the latest guidance. The purpose of this post is to try and provide some additional color to the guidance and help you understand what it is going to take in order …

Late last week the SEC issued guidance on how companies can use corporate web sites and blogs for the release of material information under regulation Fair Disclosure. This timely announcement has the potential to dramatically impact the corporate disclosure industry.
Rather than outlining the content of the guidance I thought I would provide some initial thoughts on what I see as being the key messages of the interpretive release. If you are not familar with the guidance please see the following links for more information.  
SEC Docs

The full SEC interpretive release (47 page PDF)
SEC Press …