The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted final rules to modernize investment company reporting, to require registered open-end management investment companies to establish and report liquidity risk management programs, and to permit such companies to use swing pricing. The effective dates for these changes vary.

Each October, the SEC sets the filing fee rate for the fiscal year, which is the rate the SEC believes will result in collections that equal annual statutory target amounts for the SEC. For the SEC’s 2017 fiscal year, this statutory target amount is $585 million, which resulted in a fee rate of $115.90 per million dollars. Throughout the year, the SEC may make adjustments to the fee rates in order to reach their target amount. The new fee rate became effective October 1, 2016 and should be used to calculate fees for filings until September 30, 2017 or the SEC adjusts the rate.

Update: The November 2 XBRL US SEC Filer Workshop has been cancelled.

XBRL US is hosting a one-day workshop for SEC filers on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at the AICPA offices in New York City. Topics covered by the workshop will include the changes to financial reporting that regulators are proposing, including the permitted use of Inline XBRL and revisions to disclosure requirements.

As per law, the SEC has made their annual review of the fee rates and changed the filing fee rate that public companies and other issuers must pay to register their securities with the Commission. Effective 10/01/2016 to 9/30/2017, the fee rate is $115.90 per $1,000,000. Filing fees are required for filings made pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 13(e) and 14(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This is an increase from last year’s rate of $100.70 per $1,000,000.

On September 19, 2016, EDGAR 16.3 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release contained changes to Form ABS-EE and filing changes for Forms N-CR, 13H-I and 13H-T.

On August 31, the SEC proposed amendments to require registrants to include a hyperlink to each exhibit listed in the exhibit index of registration statements and periodic and current reports. This proposed rule would also require such forms to be filed in HTML because ASCII does not support hyperlinking.

If you are reporting transactions on EDGAR Form 4 or 5, then you may have questions about the Transaction Code field. This field is required data in both Table I and Table II of these forms.

In October, the SEC will implement changes to money market fund rules and forms. These changes concern the removal of certain references to credit ratings as well as amendments to the issuer diversification requirements. These changes were initially proposed in March 2011 and proposed a second time in July 2014, and implementing them will bring rule 2a-7, the principal rule that governs money market funds, and Form N-MFP, the form that money markets use to report their portfolios to the SEC, into alignment with the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.

The XBRL US Center for Data Quality has launched a public review for five new proposed validation rules. Additionally, the Data Quality Committee (DQC) has released proposed additions to the previous rule regarding inappropriate negative values.

Rule 13q-1, which requires resource extractions issuers to disclose payments made to foreign governments, was adopted by the SEC on June 27, 2016. This rule was initially adopted in August 2012 but was vacated by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Since then, several other entities adopted transparency rules that are similar to Rule 13q-1, and the SEC re-proposed the rules for the payment disclosures back in December of last year. Now, the rule has been finalized and resource extraction issuers will be required to disclose the payments in XBRL format using Form SD starting with their fiscal year ending no earlier than September 30, 2018.

GoFiler supports a lot of user customization to allow it to meet your exact needs. One of the primary means of customizing the software is through the use of templates. The various templates used by the application can be altered to override or to add to existing functionality. Templates can also provide you with the exact look and feel you want when creating new documents, setting up projects, and publishing reviewer’s proofs.

With the SEC’s announcement that filers can now voluntarily submit Inline XBRL to EDGAR, you may be wondering what Inline XBRL is and whether you should make the switch. We’ll help you gain a better understanding of Inline XBRL and what ramifications - both good and bad - you may encounter should you choose to transition to it.

On June 13, 2016, EDGAR 16.2 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release contained changes to Form N-MFP1, Form 10-D, and Form 8-K. Additionally, EDGAR has been updated to allow registrants whose SIC code is not 6189 (asset-backed securities) to file certain asset-backed securities related forms and to allow certain filers to use Inline XBRL in their submissions.

June 1, the SEC adopted an interim final rule to implement a provision of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The rule allows Form 10-K filers to include, at their discretion, a summary of business and financial information as part of the Form 10-K.

It’s a question to which even filing experts may not know the answer. It doesn’t happen often, but the dreaded Internet error can cause major problems when you are in the middle of a Live filing. What do you do? How can you know if the SEC received the filing? This blog post will help you figure out the best course of action.