In this Order, the SEC brought settled charges against Plug Power, Inc., a provider of green hydrogen and hydrogen-fuel-cell solutions, for financial reporting, accounting and controls failures in connection with a variety of...more
Assessing Materiality: Focusing on the Reasonable Investor When Evaluating Errors - On March 9, 2022, the Office of the Chief Accountant (“OCA”), released a statement regarding assessing the materiality of financial...more
On June 23, 2020, the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) further supplemented its previous guidance to assist public companies in navigating the disclosure challenges brought...more
On June 23, 2020, the Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued another statement on the importance of high-quality financial reporting in light of the impact of, and...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA) and Division of Corporation Finance (Division) have separately issued statements emphasizing the continued importance of high-quality...more
A couple of days ago, Sagar Teotia, SEC Chief Accountant, issued a Statement on the Continued Importance of High-Quality Financial Reporting for Investors in Light of COVID-19. The Statement, issued in advance of the close...more
On March 12, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions. The amendments provide a carve-out for smaller reporting companies (SRC) and...more
The SEC has adopted amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions. The amendments exclude from the accelerated and large accelerated filer definitions an issuer that is eligible to be a smaller...more
In December 2019, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, SEC Chief Accountant Sagar Teotia and Division of Corporation Finance Director William Hinman jointly issued a statement (Statement)...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Statement—signed jointly by the Chairman, the Chief Accountant, and the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance—on December 30, 2019, titled, “Statement on Role of...more
During the last two weeks of 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission offered guidance and reminders relating to the role of audit committees, international intellectual property and technology risks, and confidential...more
On December 30, 2019, Chairman Jay Clayton, Sagar Teotia, the Chief Accountant, and William Hinman, the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued a Statement...more
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, Sagar Teotia, Chief Accountant and William Hinman, Director, Division of Corporation Finance issued a Statement on Role of Audit Committees in Financial Reporting and Key Reminders Regarding...more
Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. disclosed in its third-quarter 2017 Form 10-Q that, beginning in September 2017, Calumet’s implementation of its new enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system had resulted in...more
On May 9, 2019, the SEC proposed amendments to the accelerated filer and large accelerated filer definitions under the Exchange Act....more
Last week, the Center for Audit Quality released two new resources—an updated Guide to Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR Guide) and a new Tool for Audit Committees: Preparing for the New Credit Losses Standard...more
Always a fertile source of regulatory perspective, this year’s Baruch College Financial Reporting Conference featured a future-oriented theme in remarks by Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission Wesley...more
Current SEC reporting requirements establish three different filer statuses that categorizes issuers subject to Exchange Act reporting requirements as non-accelerated, accelerated, and large accelerated filers....more
The SEC today voted to propose amendments to the definitions of "accelerated filer" and "large accelerated filer," which are used to determine, among other things, the filing deadlines for periodic reports and the requirement...more
Disclosure alone is not sufficient; material weaknesses need to be actively remediated. While the SEC's Financial Reporting and Audit Group has been relatively quiet, it started 2019 with a bang, bringing four coordinated...more
On January 29, 2019, the SEC announced settled enforcement actions against four companies for failures to maintain internal control over financial reporting (“ICFR”) as required by Section 13(b)(2)(B) of the Securities...more
Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had settled charges against four public companies for failing to maintain internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) over the course of seven...more
Now back to work, SEC Enforcement once again takes up the issue of internal control over financial reporting. In this instance, the SEC announced settled charges against four public companies for failing to remediate...more
Capping off a busy year, the annual American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments, held on December 10-12, 2018, revisited many familiar themes from prior years and...more
On April 27, 2018, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nasdaq, along with certain technology and biotechnology groups, released a policy paper titled “Expanding...more