When a script has finished its assigned task, it can ‘return’ or ‘exit’. However, which is best? What style of coding should you use? It depends on the circumstances. Legato allows for flexibility in how scripts are structured and executed.
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LDC #153: Program Flow — Return vs. Exit
Thursday, September 19. 2019
SEC Proposes Updates to Statistical Disclosures for Banking Registrants
On September 17th, the SEC proposed rules that would update the statistical disclosures that bank and savings and loan registrants provide to investors. In addition, these changes will eliminate overlap with other SEC rules, US GAAP or IFRS. These proposed rules, which comprise a new subpart in Regulation S-K, would replace Industry Guide 3, Statistical Disclosure by Bank Holding Companies. This new subpart would include the SEC’s banking disclosure requirements.
Continue reading "SEC Proposes Updates to Statistical Disclosures..." »Monday, September 16. 2019
EDGAR 19.3 Changes and New Password Requirements
The SEC has released draft changes to the EDGAR Filer Manual and the EDGAR System. These changes will be incorporated into the EDGAR 19.3 release and Version 52 of the EDGAR Filer Manual – Volume II, which is scheduled for release on September 30, 2019. The draft changes include important updates to the requirements for the passwords that are used when logging into both the EDGAR Filing Website and the EDGAR Online Forms Management Website.
Continue reading "EDGAR 19.3 Changes and New Password Requirements" »Friday, September 13. 2019
LDC #152: Sorting and Searching Tables
This week’s blog post is going to focus on Legato’s ability to sort and search tables and lists. Many times when developing, you need to collect up a list or table of data and perform operations or analysis on that data. When analysis is involved it usually means finding specific entries in the list or table. As the data set grows this search can start to get very expensive. I’ve created a script to show how searching lists and tables can impact your script performance.
Continue reading "LDC #152: Sorting and Searching Tables" »Tuesday, September 10. 2019
Draft 2020 Updates to the SEC Taxonomies Available for Review
The SEC has released draft 2020 updates to its taxonomies for public comment. The Commission encourages filers, investors, analysts, software service providers, and other interested parties to review proposed updates in an effort to continue to improve the process for creating and using XBRL structured financial statements.
Continue reading "Draft 2020 Updates to the SEC Taxonomies..." »Friday, September 06. 2019
LDC #151: Exiting the Application
In Legato you can make all sorts of different scripts that do many different tasks. A majority of these tasks come while you are working inside of GoFiler or another application, and when these are finished you simply return out of the script and the application continues on as normal. Sometimes, however, you are performing a task that must end with finality. In this case you can exit the program that is running your script. Today we are going to look at the ways in which you can accomplish this, how they are different, and times in which you would use each.
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SEC Closed Monday, September 2
The SEC will be closed Monday, September 2 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 2 will be due the following business day.
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LDC #150: How to Decide When to Use Legato
In previous blog posts, we have shown a lot of examples of tasks you can use Legato to automate. We’ve gone into detail on how these scripts work, what UI functionality is required to support them, and ways they can be improved and added upon to increase the functionality. Way back in LDC #67, we even discussed best practices that can be applied when writing applications. One topic we haven’t really covered though, is how to estimate the complexity of a task, and if it’s even a suitable task for Legato to tackle. Keep in mind we can really do anything with Legato... but there are definitely times where we should just step back, and say that a task is outside the scope of what a script should handle.
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Thursday, August 29. 2019
SEC Offers New Interpretation and Guidance For the Applicability of the Proxy Rules
The SEC is issuing new interpretation and guidance concerning proxy rules which were promulgated by Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This new guidance is the result of the SEC examining proxy voting advice provided by proxy advisory firms as possible solicitations under the federal proxy laws. In addition, the SEC has considered public comments on a variety of issues related to the proxy voting process, from numerous public concept releases to a 2018 Roundtable that invited the public to provide feedback on the use of proxy advisory firms and their activities.
Continue reading "SEC Offers New Interpretation and Guidance For..." »Monday, August 26. 2019
First Fee Rate Advisory for Fiscal Year 2020
The SEC announced the first fee rate advisory for 2020 on August 23, which will take effect on October 1, 2019. Under this new rate, the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the SEC will be set at $129.80 per million dollars, an increase from $121.20 per million dollars.
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LDC #149: Using FTP in Legato
This weeks’s blog is going to focus on the File Transport Protocol or FTP and what functions Legato offers to add FTP into your next script. The FTP protocol is an older protocol and somewhat outdated but it does have its uses. It was originally designed to send files over the internet long before webpages and HTTP. It has many disadvantages when compared to modern protocols such as SFTP but it still offers an easy way for users to download and upload files.
Continue reading "LDC #149: Using FTP in Legato" »SEC Releases New Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations
On August 20th, the SEC staff released a group of Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CD&Is) concerning the interactive data rules, including new interpretations regarding inline XBRL. This article contains a summary of the CD&Is, organized by topic groups as well as a list of the new questions and answers that were released on August 20th.
Continue reading "SEC Releases New Compliance and Disclosure..." »Monday, August 19. 2019
New Release (5.0c) for the GoFiler Family of Products
Version 5.0c of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release contains a number improvements and corrections to Page View, iXBRL View, and XDX View, including improvements to the automatic cover page tagging for inline XBRL. Various EDGAR form improvements have also been made.
Continue reading "New Release (5.0c) for the GoFiler Family of..." »SEC Proposes to Modernize Disclosures of Business, Legal Proceedings, and Risk Factors Under Regulation S-K
On August 8th, the SEC proposed amendments that would modernize some of the descriptions and disclosures that registrants are required to make pursuant to Regulation S-K. These changes should improve disclosures for investors and simplify compliance efforts for registrants.
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LDC #148: Unicode and UTF-8
When it comes to text, we as programmers live in a world that is a combination of 8-bit and 16-bit. Living in 8-bit is okay until you need to access characters outside the scope of standard ASCII and ISO Latin 8859. Then you need additional support, and that support comes from Legato’s functions to handle Unicode and UTF-8.
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