Sending a correspondence to the SEC via EDGAR can raise questions about how to prepare the filing and how it should be filed. Unlike other information sent to EDGAR, a correspondence can be included as either an exhibit to a filing or it can be transmitted as a separate filing altogether using Form CORRESP.

The SEC announced that along with EDGAR 15.3, they would also be rolling out some SSL changes. The SEC will remove support for SSLv3 from their server, requiring all EDGAR filers to use the TLSv1.0 protocol. For the average filer, “SSL” and “TLS” may be completely foreign terms. You might be wondering: “What is SSL?” and “Does this affect my EDGAR filings?”. To know what the SSL changes mean at the SEC for your company, you’ll first have to take a short trip into the land of Internet security.

With the second quarter Q season in full swing, many filers are noticing for the first time that the SEC has changed their XBRL viewer. Because the SEC released a new version of the viewer between major filing deadlines, the update happened without a lot of notice. In this article, we will cover the changes the SEC made to their viewer and discuss both the improvements that were made as well as some new problems filers might be encountering.