{"id":771,"date":"2018-08-13T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2018-08-21T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:31:11","slug":"its-important-to-monitor-your-sec-filing-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/13\/its-important-to-monitor-your-sec-filing-status\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s important to monitor your SEC filing status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As public companies grow, they may move from one filing status or issuer category to another. Recent and proposed changes to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules for some categories could affect your company\u2019s financial reporting and audit procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Categories of public companies<\/p>\n<p>Under existing rules, public companies fall into different filing categories, based on their public \u201cfloat\u201d (the amount of shares available to the public for trading):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smaller reporting companies (SRCs) are nonaccelerated filers that meet certain other requirements, including annual revenues under $50 million if their public float is zero.<\/li>\n<li>Nonaccelerated filers have a public float of less than $75 million and aren\u2019t otherwise required to accelerate their filing deadlines.<\/li>\n<li>Accelerated filers have a public float between $75 million and $700 million and meet other requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Large accelerated filers have a public float of more than $700 million and meet certain other requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s the emerging growth company (EGC). Generally, an EGC is a new public company that has gross revenues under $1 billion in its most recent fiscal year and meets certain other requirements. EGCs enjoy a variety of benefits during their first five years of existence, including scaled-back disclosures and exemption from the auditor attestation of a company\u2019s internal control over financial reporting as required by Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.<\/p>\n<p>A company that ceases to be an EGC must begin complying with Sec. 404(b), except for nonaccelerated filers, which are exempt from that requirement unless they become accelerated or large accelerated filers. (Congress currently is considering legislation that would extend the exemption for certain companies, however.)<\/p>\n<p>Changes to public float thresholds<\/p>\n<p>On June 28, 2018, the SEC voted unanimously to issue the final rule in Release No. 33-10513, Amendments to Smaller Reporting Company Definition. The rule increases the public float threshold for SRCs to $100 million and nonaccelerated filers to $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>To complicate matters, the SEC did not make conforming changes to the definition of an accelerated filer. Rather, it eliminated the automatic exclusion of SRCs in the definitions of accelerated and large accelerated filers. As a result, a registrant could be both an SRC and an accelerated filer. As an accelerated filer, a company would still be required to comply with Sec. 404(b).<\/p>\n<p>The new SEC rule will be effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, which normally occurs a few weeks after a rule is posted on the SEC\u2019s website. The SEC said 966 additional companies will be eligible for smaller company status in the first year of the new threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Annual assessment<\/p>\n<p>Changes in filing status affect the form, content and timing of financial reports, as well as the extent of external audit procedures. So, it\u2019s a good idea to re-evaluate your company\u2019s status well before the end of each fiscal year. We can help you evaluate your filing status based on the SEC\u2019s evolving guidelines. If a change is anticipated, we can help you prepare for new filing, disclosure and audit requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As public companies grow, they may move from one filing status or issuer category to another. Recent and proposed changes to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules for some categories could affect your company\u2019s financial reporting and audit procedures. Categories of public companies Under existing rules, public companies fall into different filing categories, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/13\/its-important-to-monitor-your-sec-filing-status\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s important to monitor your SEC filing status&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,256,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accounting","category-public-companys","category-sec-compliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}