The SEC staff has announced the upcoming EDGAR Filing Fee Beta, which will be open from October 2, 2023 through December 22, 2023. All filers (including accelerated filers) are invited to participate in this Beta, which will allow filers to test the technical and structured data features of the Filing Fee Disclosure and Payment Methods Modernization rule. The Filing Fee Beta environment also will give filers the opportunity to construct structured filing fee-related information using the new Fee Exhibit Preparation Tool that includes features including prompts, explanations, and automated calculations to produce a filing fee exhibit (EX-Filing Fees) in submission-ready format. Continue reading "SEC Provides Filers Opportunity to Participate..." »

The SEC will be closed Monday, September 4th in observance of Labor Day. The EDGAR System will not receive, process or accept filings on this day. Filings with a due date of September 4th will be due the following business day. The FERC will also be closed in observation of Labor Day. eForms will accept filings submitted on September 4th. {expires: 2023-09-05} Continue reading "Labor Day" »

The SEC has released its draft of the EDGAR® Filer Manual, Volume II: “EDGAR Filing” (Version 67) to allow filer feedback and to help filers prepare for potential updates to the EDGAR system which is detailed in the draft and scheduled to be implemented in EDGAR Release 23.3 on September 18, 2023. Continue reading "SEC Publishes Current Draft for EDGAR Filer..." »

On July 17, 2023, the SEC announced that it updated SEC.gov stylesheets for Forms 4 and 5, which will be implemented with EDGAR Release 23.2.1. More specifically, the checkbox introduced in Release 23.1—to allow filers to determine whether the reported transaction was subject to a contract, instruction or written plan intended to meet the conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c)—has been moved from above Table 1 to the upper left corner of the stylesheet. There have been no new changes made to Forms 4 and 5. Continue reading "EDGAR Release 23.2.1" »

On June 20th, the SEC updated the EDGAR system to Release 23.2, and the system now supports multiple new XBRL taxonomies, including the 2023 version of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) taxonomy, the Resource Extraction Payments (RXP) taxonomy, and the Open-End Fund (OEF) taxonomy. These taxonomies are now also supported in the GoFiler Suite. Continue reading "SEC Issues June 2023 XBRL Taxonomies Update" »

On June 16th, the SEC announced that it will offer an EDGAR Filing Fee Beta that will allow filers and filing agents to test the technical and structured data components of the Filing Fee Disclosure and Payment Methods Modernization final rule, which was adopted in October 2021. Continue reading "SEC Announces EDGAR BETA Testing for Filing Fee..." »

The SEC has released its draft of the EDGAR® Filer Manual, Volume II: “EDGAR Filing” (Version 66). This draft Volume II of the EDGAR Filer Manual is accessible to filers in anticipation of feedback and to help issuers prepare for potential updates to the EDGAR system detailed in the draft and scheduled to be introduced in EDGAR Release 23.2 on June 20, 2023. Continue reading "SEC Releases New Draft EDGAR Filer Manual for..." »

On March 20, 2023, the SEC upgraded the EDGAR system to Release 23.1. The system now supports the 2023 reporting taxonomies. The SEC does not anticipate the removal of the 2021 versions of any taxonomies to occur before June 2023. For more information and a complete list of supported standard taxonomies, visit the Standard Taxonomies webpage on sec.gov. Continue reading "SEC Issues 2023 XBRL Taxonomies Update" »

The SEC has announced that EDGAR 23.1 will occur on March 20, 2023.
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The SEC has announced that it has released its draft of the EDGAR® Filer Manual, Volume II: “EDGAR Filing” (Version 65). This draft Volume II of the EDGAR Filer Manual is accessible to filers in anticipation of feedback, and to help issuers prepare for potential modifications to the EDGAR system detailed in the draft and scheduled to be implemented in EDGAR Release 23.1 on March 20, 2023. Continue reading "SEC Releases New Draft EDGAR Filer Manual for..." »

On February 21st, the SEC announced that it is adopting an amendment to Regulation S-T to extend the filing deadline for Form 144. The SEC is also adopting technical amendments to improve the consistency of recently updated provisions related to the filing format of Form 144. Continue reading "SEC Approves Final Rules to Extend Form 144..." »

In December 2022, the SEC released its annual report on existing SEC websites or digital services under Section 3(d) of the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act of 2018. The report suggests that EDGAR Next program may be delayed. Continue reading "SEC Releases Annual Report on Website..." »

On January 3, 2023, the SEC introduced EDGAR Release 22.4.1, which implements updates to Form 13F. Continue reading "EDGAR Release 22.4.1" »

On December 19th, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system was updated to Release 22.4. The system now supports the 2022Q4 version of the Executive Compensation Disclosure (ECD) and Document and Entity Information (DEI) taxonomies. These taxonomies provide the tagging elements for disclosures associated with the SEC’s releases on Pay Versus Performance and Listing Standards for Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation.

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On December 8th, the SEC announced that its Interactive Data Test Suite has been updated. The test suite provides help to filers using software to validate Interactive Data, ensuring the timely identification and resolution of potential errors before submission to EDGAR. To view a summary of the twelve revisions made in this update, see the change log in the last section of the summary file. Continue reading "SEC Releases Interactive Data Test Suite Update" »