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What is EDGAR?

EDGAR is the Securities & Exchange Commission's (SEC) public website for finding and retrieving required periodic company information filings.

How to Read a 10-K
An SEC document describing the organization and content of the annual financial report filing.
Researching Public Companies Through EDGAR: A Guide for Investors
Guide for researching public companies, from the SEC.
Thomson Research Guide to SEC Filings
Describes various filings and information required, by section of the report.
SEC Historical Society
Search for documents and programs on the regulation of the capital market system from the 20th century to the present.

SEC's EDGAR Search Engine
Direct access to more than 20 million filings through EDGAR.

Use Advanced Search to find Enforcement actions against your company.
SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases
Search 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"

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example: Theranos - Litigation Release No. 24069 / March 19, 2018
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2018/lr24069.htm

example:
Xerox - Xerox Corporation LR-17464 Apr. 10, 2002
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17465.htm
US government's General Accounting Office Financial Restatement List
Covers 01/01/1997 - 06/30/2002
US Government's General Accounting Office Financial Restatement List
Covers 07/01/2002 - 09/30/2005
US Government's General Accounting Office Financial Restatement List
Covers 10/01/2005 - 06/30/2006
Financial Restatement Database

Historical Stock Pricing - Google Finance
Type 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 Machine
Steps 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.

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