In 2002, The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance published the results of a
study which concluded that the Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of Fortune 500 companies' periodic reports typically included "boilerplate analyses that did not provide any insight into the companies' past performance or business prospects."
Subsequent
speeches by SEC Commissioner Cynthia Glassman, and related pressure from institutional investors, have urged companies to provide more forward-looking information to investors.
To help Compliance Week subscribers understand how their peers are disclosing risks in their MD&A sections, we have provided the search below, which queries Item 7 of Forms 10-K, titled "Managements Discussion And Analysis Of Financial Condition And Results Of Operations":
DISCLAIMER: This collection of documents, which searches the Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of periodic reports as filed with the SEC's EDGAR system, is not complete or definitive. The collection only includes a sampling of disclosures made since January 2004. Some entries may be missing or may have been incorrectly parsed, and the collection does not include disclosures that were incorporated by reference. Links to the original SEC filing are provided within the search results for verification. Contact us at
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