The radio button is a common tool used to select a single option among multiple choices within a dialog box. In part two of this series, we will be covering the radio button and taking the mystery out of the “group box” and the operation of automatic radio buttons. In addition, the combo box will also be examined as an alternative.
Continue reading "LDC #128: Checkbox and Radio Button Controls..." »Friday, March 22. 2019
LDC #128: Checkbox and Radio Button Controls Part 2
Tuesday, March 19. 2019
SEC Staff to Hold Spring Fintech Forum on Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Assets
The SEC will hold a public forum discussing distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital assets on May 31st, 2019. The Commission’s Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub) is organizing the forum, which was announced as part of the launch of FinHub last year. FinHub’s mission concerns maintaining active engagement with market participants about emerging financial technologies. As the second such meeting hosted by FinHub, the forum will focus on fostering greater communication and understanding around issues involving DLT and digital assets. It will feature panelists from industry and academia who will explore topics like initial coin offerings, digital asset platforms, DLT innovations, and the impact these technologies have on markets and investors.
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What's New in UGT 2019
With the last EDGAR release, the Securities and Exchange Commission updated EDGAR to accept the US GAAP 2019 taxonomy among other new taxonomies. It’s always a good practice to transition your SEC filings as soon as possible when the SEC accepts the new taxonomy year.
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LDC #127: Checkbox and Radio Button Controls Part 1
For user selection controls within dialog boxes, there are three conventional options: checkboxes, radio buttons and list/combo boxes. Each has its application since each has its strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes developers make poor choices concerning which of the three to use on their on dialogs or web pages. Bad implementations may still work, but they provide a less intuitive user experience, and these uses may not be in the spirit for which the controls were designed. Hopefully this article will help improve your knowledge and therefore ability to choose a selection control through providing information on how each type works.
Continue reading "LDC #127: Checkbox and Radio Button Controls..." »Thursday, March 14. 2019
SEC Fee Rate Advisory #2 for Fiscal Year 2019
The SEC announced a second fee rate advisory for 2019 on March 12 which will take effect on April 16, 2019. Under this new rate, the fees applicable to most securities transactions will be set at $20.70 per million shares. Accordingly, each SRO will continue to pay the SEC a rate $13.00 per million for covered sales occurring on charge dates through April 15, 2019. That rate will increase as specified to the new rate on charge dates on or after April 16, 2019. This rate is commensurate with rates published prior to 2018. As noted in the last advisory, 2018 saw a lower fee rate as a result of a substantially higher dollar amount of covered sales.
Continue reading "SEC Fee Rate Advisory #2 for Fiscal Year 2019" »Monday, March 11. 2019
New Release (4.26a) for the GoFiler Family of Products
Version 4.26a of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release corresponds to EDGAR Release 19.1 and contains a number of improvements to Form N-CEN View, general EDGAR forms, and XBRL. Additionally, this version contains support for the US GAAP 2019 taxonomy.
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On March 11, 2019, EDGAR Release 19.1 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release contains expanded support for Inline XBRL, support for the 2019 taxonomies and changes to a number of EDGAR XML forms, including ABS-EE, the Regulation A forms, Form MA, Form N-CEN and the N-PORT forms.
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LDC #126: Dialog Boxes Part V (continued) — Writing and Reading Information with a Data Control
In this discussion of dialog boxes, I will continue to explore the data control by looking at how we can manipulate the content and retrieve data. As mentioned in Part V, the Data Control and Data View share many of the same functions as well as the same base, the Data Sheet. If you would like to review part 1, it is available here.
Continue reading "LDC #126: Dialog Boxes Part V (continued) —..." »Friday, March 01. 2019
LDC #125: Advanced Application of EDAC: Importing NPORT Part C
A few weeks ago, I did a blog post introducing the “EDAC” functions in Legato with a very brief example of how to create an NPORT filing and fill in a few fields. Well, I thought we would take that a few steps further, and show how you can use that to create an import function for a complex table like the Part C section of NPORT. This table is fairly involved because it has three possible layers of sublists (lists contained in other lists), and we’ll need to keep track of this. Therefore, this blog is going to discuss a lot of “level 1”, “level 2”, and “level 3” tables, all of which occur within a single data table. To help visualize what exactly is meant by these different levels, take a look at this screenshot from GoFiler:
Continue reading "LDC #125: Advanced Application of EDAC:..." »Thursday, February 28. 2019
SEC Modifies Timing for Filing Form N-PORT
The SEC has modified the timing for filing non-public Form N-PORT data to align with its approach to data management and cybersecurity. The submission deadlines for registered investment companies filing non-public monthly reports on Form N-PORT has been changed. Rather than filing non-public monthly reports within 30 days after the end of each month, funds will be required to maintain the relevant information in their records but file all three monthly reports to EDGAR no later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal quarter.
Continue reading "SEC Modifies Timing for Filing Form N-PORT" »Wednesday, February 27. 2019
SEC Proposes to Expand "Test-the-Waters" Modernization Reform to All Issuers
On February 19th, the SEC proposed an expansion of the popular modernization reform that permits investor opinions about potential offerings to be taken into account at an earlier stage in the public offering process than is the case today. The new rule and related changes would expand the “test-the-waters” accommodation, which is currently only available to emerging growth companies (EGCs). The expansion would permit all prospective issuers to gauge market interest in a possible initial public offering or other proposed registered securities offering by discussing the offering with potential investors prior to the filing of the offering’s registration statement.
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LDC #124: Converting CSV to HTML using Legato
If you have ever wanted to format data from a database into a web format then you have experienced the added difficulty of working with HTML. For this week’s blog we are going to be taking a look at Legato’s HTML Writer object. This object allows us to create HTML coding with very little knowledge of HTML but allows us access to some advanced features of HTML like CSS. In order to show the HTML Writer object, we will convert a CSV file to HTML but the data source could easily be adapted to any file format or database.
Continue reading "LDC #124: Converting CSV to HTML using Legato" »Tuesday, February 19. 2019
New Release (4.25d) for the GoFiler Family of Products
Version 4.25d of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release contains a number of improvements to Form N-CEN View, general EDGAR forms, the Export XBRL to Excel function and to XDX and iXBRL. Additionally, improvements were made to the Virtual File Cloud browser feature, which can now be enabled via the application preferences.
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LDC #123: Comparing Two Zip Files
Many times we developers download tools and updates to specifications in zip files. Figuring out which files have changed between versions can be a pain. For this blog, we are going to create a simple script to help compare the contents of two different zip files. Instead of having to check all the files, you can run this script and have it print a list of the files that need to be reviewed.
Continue reading "LDC #123: Comparing Two Zip Files" »SEC Extends Comment Period for Updated Disclosure Requirements for Variable Annuities and Variable Life Insurance Contracts
On February 14th, the SEC extended the comment period on proposed rulemaking concerning variable annuities and variable life insurance contracts. These proposed rules and form changes, which were originally published in the Federal Register on November 30, 2018, help investors make informed investment decisions regarding these contracts. The SEC has received numerous requests for additional time from the public and believes such time will allow the public to thoroughly consider the proposals and provide useful feedback that can guide the SEC in its decision process.
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