A few weeks back I wrote a blog about automating Internet Explorer using OLE and Legato. In that blog, I mentioned we would be adding more OLE automation capabilities as newer versions of GoFiler and Legato were released. Now that version 4.22c of the GoFiler line of products is out, the increased OLE automation functionality of Legato is available. Today I will discuss how to use it and give a small example of what it can do.
Continue reading "LDC #89: Automating Other Applications Through..." »Friday, June 15. 2018
LDC #89: Automating Other Applications Through Legato Part 2
Monday, June 11. 2018
XBRL US Data Quality Committee Approves Sixth Ruleset for IFRS and US GAAP Filings
On May 31, 2018 the XBRL US Center for Data Quality has released the sixth set of rules to provide guidance and aid for issuers in identifying errors in their XBRL SEC filings. The Data Quality Committee rules aim to help filers limit mistakes and avoid data inconsistencies that can adversely affect analysis of reported financial information. The sixth release of rules includes guidance for issuers using either the US-GAAP or IFRS taxonomies.
Continue reading "XBRL US Data Quality Committee Approves Sixth..." »Friday, June 08. 2018
LDC #88: Dialog Boxes Part IV — Combo Boxes
A combo box is a great tool to allow users to select options. Combo boxes, as the name implies, combine the functionality of an edit control with that of a list box. In this article we will look at the functionality of combo boxes and explore their implementations.
Continue reading "LDC #88: Dialog Boxes Part IV — Combo Boxes" »Thursday, June 07. 2018
XBRL US Seeks Input On XBRL For Earnings Announcements
XBRL US is seeking input from SEC-registered public companies as to the possibility of using XBRL for earnings announcements, either for a press release or a Form 8-K filing of an earnings announcement.
Continue reading "XBRL US Seeks Input On XBRL For Earnings..." »Tuesday, June 05. 2018
SEC Requests Comments on Fund Retail Investor Experience and Disclosure
On June 5, 2018, the SEC voted to improve the experience of investors who invest in mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other investment funds by releasing the Investment Company Disclosure and Delivery Rulemaking Package. This package contains three separate but related releases that are part of a long-term project led by the Division of Investment Management to explore the modernization of the design, delivery, and content of fund disclosures.
Continue reading "SEC Requests Comments on Fund Retail Investor..." »Friday, June 01. 2018
LDC #87: Using Progress Bars
Legato is an interpreted language, but even so, it performs quite quickly. Most scripts will execute within a second or so, even if it’s the script contains relatively complex HTML parsing or something similar. However, occasionally there are scripts that iterate over extremely large data sets, or work with file IO, or really do anything that can take a long time. If the script is just running, unless you put up some sort of a progress bar, it might look like the application has frozen to the user. Therefore, it’s really important to put up a progress bar to let the user know what’s going on with the script. I’ve put together a simple example script of a progress bar below, but let’s talk about how to use one first.
Continue reading "LDC #87: Using Progress Bars" »Monday, May 28. 2018
SEC Proposes FAIR Act Rules to Promote Research Reports on Investment Funds
On May 23, 2018, the SEC proposed new rules and amendments that would promote research on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, registered closed-end funds, business development companies, and similar investment funds. These changes would reduce obstacles often encountered in providing research on investment funds by aligning the treatment of such reports with research on other public entities. The Congressional mandate of the Fair Access to Investment Act of 2017 (FAIR ACT) underlies the SEC’s actions in proposing these changes.
Continue reading "SEC Proposes FAIR Act Rules to Promote Research..." »Friday, May 25. 2018
LDC #86: Uncovering the Storage Vault
Computers are amazing at creating things like photos, videos, papers, books, Powerpoint presentations, and the ultimate combination of all of the above: Grumpy Cat memes. An essential but often invisible part of computers is the storage space where all of this stuff goes: hard drives, network drives, and other physical storage space. These things are required to make your computer work the way it should, but they do a very good job at not calling attention to themselves. However, knowing that storage spaces exist and how you can interact with them can help you later on when you want to create programs and scripts that require certain types of storage to be available.
Continue reading "LDC #86: Uncovering the Storage Vault" »
Friday, May 18. 2018
LDC #85: Math Functions in Legato
For this week’s blog we are going to create a simple calculator using Legato. Legato offers a wide variety of math functions that we can use to program the calculator. Before we get started coding, let’s think about the parts of the script we will need. First there will need to be a user interface. In our case, a dialog works perfectly. Secondly, we need to have a way to store operands, and a floating point number is good choice here. If we use only an integer the user cannot do decimal math. Finally, we will need to have operation processing. For this we will use Legato’s math functions. To begin I am going to set up the basics of the dialog, and we can add the processing together.
Continue reading "LDC #85: Math Functions in Legato" »Monday, May 14. 2018
SEC Launches Additional Investor Protection Search Tool
The SEC announced on May 2nd that it will launch an additional online search tool that will help investors in researching whether persons trying to sell them investments has a judgment or order against them in an enforcement action. This new tool, the SEC Action Lookup for Individuals (SALI), is intended to assist the public in making informed investment decisions and avoiding financial fraud.
Continue reading "SEC Launches Additional Investor Protection..." »
Friday, May 11. 2018
LDC #84: Dialog Boxes Part III — List Boxes
Allowing the user to select items or review lists of data is fundamental to many interfaces. For one or two items, radio buttons or check boxes can work, but for more complex data, a list box can be a good choice. In this blog, I will cover the ‘listbox’ common control, one of many methods of presenting and managing lists of data.
Continue reading "LDC #84: Dialog Boxes Part III — List Boxes" »Monday, May 07. 2018
SEC Enforcement Division Issues FAQs for Share Class Selection Disclosure Initiative
On May 1st, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement released answers to frequently asked questions concerning the Share Class Selection Disclosure (SCSD) Initiative. This initiative was announced earlier this year on February 12th with the goal of protecting advisory clients from undisclosed conflicts of interest and aid in returning money to those investors affected by previous undisclosed conflicts of interest.
Continue reading "SEC Enforcement Division Issues FAQs for Share..." »Friday, May 04. 2018
LDC #83: Validating With The XBRL Object Part 2
Back in February, I wrote a blog post about how we can use the XBRL Object in Legato to do some extra validation on XBRL. In that blog we added a check for the number of custom elements. That was a relatively basic application of XBRL in Legato though, not very complicated. What if we want to do something a lot more in depth? For example, check to ensure we’re not defining any cyclic presentation relationships. By that, I mean that you have a dimension - member pair in a context, but in the presentation properties for a presentation where that context appears the domain for that dimension is set to the same member. That’s a cyclic relationship; saying something is it’s own parent element. This isn’t Futurama, you can’t be your own grandfather in XBRL.
Continue reading "LDC #83: Validating With The XBRL Object Part 2" »
Tuesday, May 01. 2018
SEC Proposes Regulation Best Interest to Enhance Protections for Retail Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a package of rulemakings and interpretations designed to enhance the quality and transparency of investors’ relationships with investment advisers and broker-dealers. These changes will also preserve access to a variety of types of advice relationships and investment products. Generally, the proposed regulations would enhance investor protection by applying consistent principles to investment advisers and broker-dealers that provide for clear disclosures, encouraging exercising due care, and addressing conflicts of interest.
Continue reading "SEC Proposes Regulation Best Interest to..." »Monday, April 30. 2018
SEC Releases Fee Rate Advisory #3 for 2018 Fiscal Year
On April 17, the SEC announced that the fee rates applicable to most securities transactions will be set at $13.00 per million dollars starting on May 22, 2018. The reduction in the fee rate is partly due to the higher dollar amount of covered sales in recent months.
Continue reading "SEC Releases Fee Rate Advisory #3 for 2018..." »
« previous page
(Page 16 of 32, totaling 472 entries)
next page »
