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Viewing EDGAR ASCII Files
To view a properly formatted EDGAR text or .txt file, follow these instructions.
- Save the document to your hard drive from your e-mail program. DO NOT DOUBLE CLICK TO ACCESS THIS TEXT FILE.
- Open Word from the Start Menu.
- At the top of your program click on Tool and then Options.
- Under General - place a tick on Confirm Conversion at Open then Okay.
- Put your cursor on File and click on Open and at the bottom of the dialogue box where it asks for Files of Type: pick "all files".
- Navigate to the document that you saved, highlight it and click on open.
- When it asks where to convert file from choose "Text Only" at the top and click on okay.
- Highlight the entire document by using CtrlA.
- At the top left of your screen in Word, place your cursor on File and under File click on Page Set-up.
- Set the top, bottom, left and right margins to .4 inches and the rest to 0 - click on Okay. If the box says Fix or Ignore, - click on Ignore.
- With the text still all highlighted, set the Font to "Courier New" and the pitch to "7" (the number 7 has to be typed in because it's too small to be an option).
- Under View choose Zoom and set it to 150% so that you can see the document properly.
- Click anywhere in your document to get rid of the highlighting.
Now your document should be set up the correct way.
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| XBRL Final Rule Posted: January 30th, 2009 The SEC has announced its final XBRL rule. For public companies, interactive data financial reporting will occur on a phased-in schedule beginning in 2009. The largest companies who file using U.S. GAAP with a public float above $5 billion will be required to provide interactive data reports starting with their first quarterly report for fiscal periods ending on or after June 15, 2009. | |
| SEC Announces XBRL Mandate Posted: December 18th, 2008 The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to require public companies and mutual funds to use interactive data for financial information. The largest companies who file using U.S. GAAP with a public float above $5 billion will be required to provide interactive data reports starting with their first quarterly report for fiscal periods ending on or after June 15, 2009. remaining companies who file using U.S. GAAP will be required to file with interactive data on a phased-in schedule over the next two years. Companies reporting in IFRS issued by the International Accounting Standards Board will be required to provide their interactive data reports starting with fiscal years ending on or after June 15, 2011. | |
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