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Publicly-Traded Companies Earnings Reports

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Snapshot: Earnings Date Announcements and Earnings Release Form 8-K Practices

We reviewed four quarters of press releases announcing upcoming earning release dates, as well as the subsequent earnings release Form 8-Ks, for 30 public companies in the Lonergan Silicon Valley 150 to determine how long in...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

COVID-19 Update: Key Questions to Consider in Preparing Your Q1 2020 Form 10-Q and Earnings Release

Public companies are considering key questions as they prepare first quarter 2020 disclosures in the COVID-19 era. In light of the April 8, 2020 joint public statement issued by the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SEC Chairman and Division of Corporation Finance Director Release Public Statement on COVID-19 Impact Disclosure in Earnings...

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On April 8, 2020, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission), and William Hinman, Director of the Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, released an unusual public statement addressing...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Guidance in Relation to Upcoming Earnings Releases

In a joint statement, the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, and the Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, William Hinman, exhorted public companies to provide, in connection with...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Roundtable on Quarterly Disclosures and Short-Termism

The SEC announced an upcoming roundtable (date and details to come) that will focus on the causes of short-termism, including the role of quarterly disclosures. At the end of 2018, the SEC had published a request for comment...more

White & Case LLP

Hard at Work Closing Out an Already Active 2018

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SEC Adopts Hedging Rules, Extends Regulation A to all Public Companies and Solicits Comments on Earnings Releases and Quarterly Reports. SEC Adopts Rules for Public Companies to Use Regulation A - Keeping up with the...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Request for Comment on Earnings Releases and Quarterly Reports

As we previously posted, the Securities and Exchange Commission had announced that at today's open meeting the Commission would, among other things, consider a request for comment regarding earnings releases and the frequency...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Walmart’s retail efforts to keep pace with Amazon are well documented.  Now it appears that the company’s refusing to concede the entertainment space, either, as evidenced by its new partnerships with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The SEC has an opened an investigation into whether companies are improperly rounding up their earnings per share reporting to the next highest cent—an inquiry reportedly prompted by a noticeable lack of “4s” in the tenths...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Initial Thoughts on Brexit for US Reporting Companies

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Britain’s vote to exit the European Union (Brexit), is an alarm here, there and everywhere, of solidifying popular and national anxiety, of a conviction that free trade and globalization are not tides that lift all boats,...more

WilmerHale

Applying the New SEC Staff Guidance on Non-GAAP Measures to Your Next Earnings Announcement

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On May 17, 2016, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance escalated the SEC’s efforts to curb perceived misuse of non-GAAP financial measures with the issuance of a revised set of Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Do Hiring Practices Lead To Earnings Management?

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Yes, according to a study from academics at the University of South Carolina, reported by Reuters. The study showed that U.S. public companies tend to favor hiring accountants “who show a willingness to flatter corporate...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Earnings Call Practices: How Does Your Company Compare to Others?

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Results from the 2014 Earnings Call Practices Survey conducted by the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), a professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants, confirm that an...more

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