Advanced Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259916977
Author: Christensen, Theodore E., COTTRELL, David M., Budd, Cassy
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Introduction:The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regulates the trading of securities and imposes reporting requirements on companies whose securities trade on one of the stock exchanges. The three basic periodic reporting forms used for this updating are Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and Form 8-K.Form10-K is the annual filing to the SEC, Form 10-Q is the quarterly reporting to SEC, and Form 8-K is used to disclose unscheduled material events.
To choose:The correct answer to determine the example of occurrence of Material event that is filed in Form 8-K.
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