Jim Brendel's blog

Regulators are favoring more disclosure in annual reports prepared for public companies for fiscal year 2011, but they are also bringing in a dose of reasonableness in regards to burdensome valuation requirements. Here are seven changes in annual reporting that you need to know for 2011 year-end reports:

There are a number of recent rules that will have accounting and reporting implications for financial statements. They vary from changing the timing of financial results to adding to overall reporting expense.

If violence is dealt with best with by avoiding it, then so is provoking the Securities and Exchange Commission. These folks can cause you an awful headache if you manage a public company, not the least of which is immediate damaged investor confidence in the wake of a comment letter or worse, enforcement action.