Around this time last year, experts were predicting a dramatic increase in 8-K reporting volume in light of the adoption of amendments to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Form 8-K rules. As most public company executives know by now, under rules that took effect Aug. 23, 2004, companies are required to report additional events on a reconfigured Form 8-K, and filing deadlines were generally shortened to four business days.
A year later, experts say that 8-K filings have indeed soared, though not quite to the sky high levels that had been anticipated.
