Granted, it’s not the first thing you rush to do when there’s a change with the contact information at your company, but keeping the SEC abreast of such changes is an important task that often gets overlooked. The contact information you or your company has provided to the EDGAR System is what the SEC staff uses to communicate with you about the status of your filings. If this information is not up to date, there could be an unnecessary delay while the SEC attempts to find a way to contact you or someone at your company who is knowledgeable about your EDGAR filings.

The SEC made a few changes to their EDGAR Renderer (XBRL Viewer) and quietly released version 3.3 in the beginning of November. Most of the changes are improvements and address issues that were introduced with the previous release of the software.

The SEC adopted the final rule allowing companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding on October 30, 2015. These new rules (Regulation Crowdfunding) require companies who opt to raise money through crowdfunding to provide the SEC with new disclosures via EDGAR and are expected to take effect during the second quarter of 2016.