What is EDGAR?
EDGAR is the Securities & Exchange Commission's (SEC) public website for finding and retrieving required periodic company information filings.
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How to Read a 10-KAn SEC document describing the organization and content of the annual financial report filing.
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Researching Public Companies Through EDGAR: A Guide for InvestorsGuide for researching public companies, from the SEC.
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Thomson Research Guide to SEC FilingsDescribes various filings and information required, by section of the report.
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SEC Historical SocietySearch for documents and programs on the regulation of the capital market system from the 20th century to the present.
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This page is meant to help you find reports, articles, and other sources that will provide the necessary context for your final project.
Company Information
- SEC litigation searchIt's helpful to see the primary litigation documentation before researching information about the case on other platforms.
If the document isn't coming up easily for you, I would search somewhere like Google with: company name + litigation + SEC - Nexis UniContains a variety of full-text resources including: domestic and foreign newspapers other news sources related to general topics, companies, industries,government, politics, accounting, tax, health, and law.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
SEC Filings Searches
- SEC's EDGAR Search EngineDirect access to more than 20 million filings through EDGAR.
Use Advanced Search to find Enforcement actions against your company. - SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement ReleasesSearch your company name in the search box, and then limit the results based on the type of resource you want to review, like "litigation" or "enforcement"
- US government's General Accounting Office Financial Restatement ListCovers 01/01/1997 - 06/30/2002
- US Government's General Accounting Office Financial Restatement ListCovers 07/01/2002 - 09/30/2005
- US Government's General Accounting Office Financial Restatement ListCovers 10/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
Historical Company Information
- Historical Stock Pricing - Google FinanceType in the name of your company, and manipulate the date range to see how stock prices were affected by the company's accounting trouble.
- The Way Back MachineSteps for use:
1) Type in company's website (www.xerox.com)
2) Select the year you're interested in viewing (Xerox had an SEC investigation in 2002, so you would jump directly to 2002)
3) Look for a date on the calendar that is highlighted in blue, click on that to get taken to the way the company's website was displayed on this date in history. Internal links should work as well.
FASB Codification
FASB Standards Searching - See the link in the Library Session links for information on how to log in.
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